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Regarding your #1 (or, alternatively, [A]), there's simply no reason to think that what worked for Trump in the Republican primaries--already a bit of a freak show selection of the electorate--will work in the general election.
So what might actually decide the election?
Obsessing over last week's or this week's polls is irresistible, but they are pure noise (see here). This essay in the NYRB makes for timely reading (I've been reading the Achen & Bartels book, on recommendation of Jason Brennan, and it is instructive on a number of points). 10% of the electo...
No, Lewis was just 60 when he died. It's not written in the rules, at least not that I saw, but look at the list. Quine, the first winner, was already in his 80s. Putnam, the most recent winner, was in his 80s as well. The award is clearly slanted, as I note, towards "formal" work, with Rawls and Nagel being the exceptions. How seriously they take the 'formal' part (it is a prize in logic & philosophy) will no doubt affect how much longer they can aim for philosophers over the age of 70.
Against The Schock!
Leiter is encouraging discussion of nominations for the The Schock Prize. I hope our readers chime in for an enjoyable and enlightening conversation. (I vote for Nussbaum.) All nine of the Schock winners thus far were or are eminent philosophers, and most of us can only aspire to emulate the q...
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