Argentine (sorry!) American (sorry again!) living in Canada. Philosophy, Science, Political economy. Tinkering here, dabbling there.
“…should perhaps remind the zealots that there are human costs to their sanctimonious crusades” Interesting, this is my feeling about Byrne and his supporters. leiterreports.com/2026/07/27/i...
Interview with philosopher Alex Byrne……in CHE. What happened to his wife, the evolutionary biologist Carol Hooven, is really awful, and should perhaps remind the zealots that there are human costs to their sanctimonious crusades.…leiterreports.comYes, it's a conspiracy by Brazil, Mexico and the Democrats. Anything but admit the more plausible reality. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Javier Milei accuses US Democrats of financing ‘anti-Argentina campaign’ at World CupPresident also blames Brazil and Mexico and says online critics ‘do not want the ideas of freedom to succeed’www.theguardian.com
After suggesting people in poverty lack the experience to navigate the “real world,” Senator Jon Husted revived a familiar claim: poverty reflects personal failure rather than economic structure—an explanation decades of research reject. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-republic...
Of course, Pinker cherry picked methods to support claims about convergence 😡😡😡 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The myth of catch-up development: trends in core–periphery inequality from 1960 to 2023The conventional narrative in international development holds that poorer countries are “catching up” with richer countries through the process of capitalist growth. This paper assesses this claim ...www.tandfonline.com
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An open letter calling for disclosures of conflicts of interest in publications by philosophersI was pleased to be asked to sign this well-done letter by philosophers of science Craig Callender (UC San Diego) and Cailin O’Connor (UC Irvine), which is now public and taking signatures fr…leiterreports.com
