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May 14, 2019

The day the Russians nuked my sawmill camp. A survivor’s memoir.

Prelude: After 44 years, my memory of this late cold-war-era event is not perfect. But it left an impression that planted seeds for my future interest in social epistemology, the social dimension of knowledge. Perhaps as something like Y2K will do for others. ‘Epistemic’ means pertaining to what we know, how we know, and so Continue reading

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April 26, 2019

Community and Alienation, 4 Vignettes

A Community of Sufferers* I’m having a meal with my husband at a pub in Bristol, delighting in the warm and jovial conversation of the three older men having a pint at the neighbouring table. By their camaraderie, I assume they’ve had a long history together, probably meeting at this very pub over many years. As Continue reading

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April 22, 2019

Five Human Commonalities. Intro by Thomas Hobbes.

Intro. We are equally vulnerable. Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that, thought there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man and man [and woman*] is not so considerable Continue reading

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Catch-All

The day the Russians nuked my sawmill camp. A survivor’s memoir.

Community and Alienation, 4 Vignettes

Five Human Commonalities. Intro by Thomas Hobbes.