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Saturday, August 20, 2022

“Look Both Ways”: Counterfactuals in the Movies

This 2022 Netflix movie may deserve something more than its IMDb of 6.2, if only because it is perhaps the most extended counterfactual conditional movie of all time.

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Labels: closest possible world, Counterfactual Conditionals, counterfactuals, David Lewis, Everett, Lili Rhinehart, Looking Both Ways, many-worlds interpretation, Possible Worlds

Monday, August 1, 2022

Non-citizen local voting

Why not?

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Posted by Lawrence Crocker at 7:17 AM No comments:
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Labels: 14th Amendment, Election Law, Local voting, New York non-citizen voting, Non-citizen voting
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Lawrence Crocker
My Ph.D, was from the Harvard Philosophy Department of Rawls, Putnam, Quine, Nozick, Kripke, Boyd et. al. in 1970. I taught at the University of Washington. Later with a J.D. from Duke, I clerked on the 9th Circuit, did corporate, then air crash litigation, then prosecuted in Manhattan, taught at NYU law, litigated some more, and then taught philosophy at Dartmouth, where I am now a Resident Scholar.
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  • Hope to God
  • TEDx College in Prison
  • "Justification & Bad Motives" Ohio State J Criminal Law 2008
  • "Can the Exclusionary Rule Be Saved" Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 1993
  • "Flunking the Prisoners' Dilemma" Philosophy Now 2009
  • "The Existence of God: Two New Proofs" Philosophy Now 2011
  • "The Impossibility of Maximizing Good Consequences" Philosophy Now Jul/Aug 2014
  • Switching Wine Glasses" Philosophy Now 2008

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