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Michael Huemer
fakenous.net · Personal blog · on HN since 2018
Michael Huemer is a philosophy professor who writes essays on ethics, politics, academia, and other topics on his blog Fakenous.
What HN saysHN commenters cite it for his critiques of Rawls and of left-wing dominance and silencing of dissent in academia. One noted a broken page.
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tailspin2019 · 2021-06-20
"Too many redirects occurred trying to open “https://fakenous.net/?p=2365/wp-admin/install.php”. This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open another page, which then is redirected to open the original page."
EDIT: I'd love to understand the downvote, considering as I write this the linked website is still presenting an open installer wizard for Wordpress!
sebastianconcpt · 2022-09-12
In the academy, left-wing beliefs dominate; therefore, the affirmative action supporters would be first and foremost demanding preferences for conservatives, libertarians, moderates, fascists, monarchists, and other people who do not accept the current progressive orthodoxy.
Everyone knows that isn’t happening. Virtually none (maybe actually zero) of the woke, social-justice-warrior people support philosophical diversity. The most “woke” people are the ones who aggressively try to silence all dissent (https://fakenous.net/?p=2932) and to exclude conservatives, libertarians, etc., from the Academy. So they not only fail to value intellectual diversity; they are just about the most stridently anti-diversity people in the entire country.
Correct.
imapeopleperson · 2022-09-12
This seems prescient:
“The most “woke” people are the ones who aggressively try to silence all dissent (https://fakenous.net/?p=2932) and to exclude conservatives, libertarians, etc., from the Academy. So they not only fail to value intellectual diversity; they are just about the most stridently anti-diversity people in the entire country.”
setgree · 2022-06-01
For a much more critical take on Rawls, see Michael Huemer's "John Rawls is an Awful Reasoner" [0]
Huemer is definitely writing in a polemical style that might turn some folks off, but I think the basic point -- that Rawls contorts himself to avoid a framework that just boils down to 'maximize utility' -- is more or less on point.
[0] https://fakenous.net/?p=1824
______- · 2021-06-20
Also https://fakenous.net/ looks like someone's installing a new Wordpress. I've seen this situation before and was able to literally install Wordpress on someone's server.
spekcular · 2020-12-05
Well, yeah, it was an analytic department. I also happen to think that's the "right" view.
To clarify, I don't think reading the original texts is a bad use of time if you're already in deep, just that it's not good for a first introduction (for the reasons I mentioned). Plato was simply confused about a ton of things and makes egregious errors while reasoning through ideas. We don't read him because he was right, we read him for other reasons.
For a more detailed treatment of this issue, see this blog post: http://fakenous.net/?p=1168.
galambo · 2021-05-29
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