"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys; he may look dumb but that's just a disguise; he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage." Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider" September 2009 - Posts - TT's Lost in Tokyo

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More from Gene Callahan: do perceptions of "moral truths" make them objectively real, apart from those who perceive them (instead of evolved hard-wiring to cooperate)? by TokyoTom

It has come to my attention that Gene Callahan has responded to my remarks regarding "objective moral truths" that I noted here . Rather than continuing the long threadjack of an unrelated post by Bob Murphy (on climate change science), I copy...
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Does responding to climate change risks REQUIRE government? by TokyoTom

A reader of Bob Murphy` s recent post on climate science - " TokyoTom Moving the Goalposts? " - queried my views on whether perceptions of climate change problems themselves justified a need to establish government. I copy below my response...
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Consensus on my brain: Murphy on "Orwellian" consensus, Callahan's consensus on "objective" moral truths, & consensus among neurons by TokyoTom

A recent post by the prolifically productive Bob Murphy , " A Quick Note from Baltimore ", provides an opportunity for further thoughts on my continuing effort to puzzle out what Bob and Gene Callahan mean by their insistence that there is an...
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Murphy and Callahan on my brain; Murphy says: "The Brain and Mind Are Not the Same Thing!" by TokyoTom

 

 

 

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The extra richness of Robert Bradley/MasterResource: diehard libertarian making a living at pure rent-seeking ("political capitalism") by TokyoTom

 

 

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Callahan finally speaks: but are external, "objective moral truths" needed for a community to enforce shared rules? by TokyoTom

[Well, the Mises server just swallowed my first attempt at this post, so the reader will just have to suffer this sketchier one.] I have been chasing both Gene Callahan and Bob Murphy to try to get them to spell out what they mean when they assert that...
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Block/Huebert/Kinsella revisit corporations, beg Qs of grant of limited liability towards persons involuntarily injured and resulting fight to influence state action by TokyoTom

I left the following comment at a recent Mises Blog post by Stephan Kinsella , but the number of links included apparently triggered the spam filter and held up the comment. According, I post it here, so I can re-comment with a cross-link here. Stephan...
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[Update] Bob Murphy & Gene Callahan flesh out the "objective" moral order: it applies only to those able to perceive it? by TokyoTom

 

 

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"TokyoTom Moving the Goalposts?" Bob Murphy dislikes my criticism of the rush by "skeptics" to print climate science news by TokyoTom

Further to my preceding post, on " Confirmation bias, rent-seeking and the rush to print the latest science "scoop (Linzen-Choi) ", I note that Bob Murphy has kindly put up a new blog post that notes and responds to my comments to him ...
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Confirmation bias, rent-seeking and the rush to print the latest climate science "scoop" (Lindzen-Choi) by TokyoTom

Since I`m in Tokyo and deprived of Bob Murphy `s enviable access, via talk radio , to cutting-edge climate science, I thank him using his blog to bring it to the attention of his audience (which occasionally includes me). Says Bob (emphasis added): Chip...
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