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Kenny Pearce
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I read old books & am confused about God. Philosophy prof (currently James Madison University, formerly Trinity College Dublin). Latest book: http://bit.ly/2QrnJxl Latest paper: https://place.asburyseminary.edu/faithandphilosophy/vol41/iss1/5/
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The person that some experts say is the president of the United States has been accused of posting what appears to be a video on what some critics are calling Saturday
British empiricism is not a thing. But it's pretty clear that (Irish!) Berkeley and Hume take ideas to be images. It's disputed in the secondary lit whether Locke does.
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Just received from a colleague: looks like Penn is going to join the universities refusing the extortionary Trump "compact". I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
Step 1: refuse to draw any distinction between "phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking".

#philosophy #c17
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Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
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In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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"The chancellor approved it"
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Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.
Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.
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Lovely write-up about great things happening in my department!
www.jmu.edu/news/cal/202...
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In #c17 seventeenth century Iceland, 40% of the male population was named Jon Jonson.

Friend was transcribing a witchcraft trial where accused, plaintiff, victim, judge, & two witnesses were all Jon Jonson.

I console myself with this story whenever Renaissance Italy gives me too many Giovannis.
In my study of #c17 & #c18 #philosophy, I’ve encountered only one John Smith, but three Samuel Johnsons, three John Clarkes, and three Edward Synges.
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Just got an email from a scam academic journal asking if I wanted to "explore new advances in White Psychodrama" and it's just got me like: buddy, I can watch the news myself.
By now I’m used to board books being a bit butchered compared to the originals, but this is a new low: the board book of There’s a Wocket in my Pocket HAS NO WOCKET IN IT!
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The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.

His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.

Now he is tweeting in support of me.

This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.

Or used to work.
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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yeah, i do peer review
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Remember that whole year you had to have Piketty on your coffee table to be accepted in polite society?

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