I am a professor of philosophy. I am also a gun owner. And I think that advocates of gun control need to stop all this nonsense about banning “assault rifles.” True “assault rifles” in the technical sense are not used in mass shootings in the US. A “necessary condition” (as we philosophers like to say) […]
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[Revised entry by Mark Balaguer on December 24, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Platonism is the view that...
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