Curt Doolittle

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  • Is Philosophy the Literature of Deceit?

    [W]hen you switch from the conduct of pedagogy to science, justification to criticism, opportunity searching to error reduction, you see that philosophy has unjustifiably self congratulated itself quite a bit throughout history. And when you find the central problem of epistemology is not improvement of your own meagre ability to produce ideas, but the detection of deception in the extraordinary ability of the collective to produce a market of ideas, then you treat the philosophical discourse very differently. I have taken to assuming all philosophical statements are attempts at free riding, and that I must discover how they seek free riding. This has become my current view of philosophy. On the other hand it requires a catalog of human errors just as it requires a catalog of crimes, to practice the craft of prosecuting thought in the advancement of fraud.

  • (sketch) Science Replaces Philosophy

      [S]CIENCE REPLACES PHILOSOPHY Existence (need for action) Aesthetics (the sciences of experiences / experience / spirituality) Testimony (the sciences of truth telling / knowledge / psychology) Law (the sciences of cooperation / each other / sociology) Engineering (the hard sciences / the universe / physics) [M]ETHODS OF COMMUNICATION Law(cooperation), Laws Aesthetics(pleasure), Experiences Literature(conflation), Analogies Science (deflation). Names. PHILOSOPHY IS COMPLETE

  • (sketch) Science Replaces Philosophy

      [S]CIENCE REPLACES PHILOSOPHY Existence (need for action) Aesthetics (the sciences of experiences / experience / spirituality) Testimony (the sciences of truth telling / knowledge / psychology) Law (the sciences of cooperation / each other / sociology) Engineering (the hard sciences / the universe / physics) [M]ETHODS OF COMMUNICATION Law(cooperation), Laws Aesthetics(pleasure), Experiences Literature(conflation), Analogies Science (deflation). Names. PHILOSOPHY IS COMPLETE

  • (Diary) Progress on Deception in Literature and Philosophy

    [G]reat progress on this problem of literature and deception that I have been struggling with for years. I have these periods where I think I am not making progress, and then I make a great deal of progress in a few days. The periods where I make little progress are just records of the effort it takes to solve some of these problems. Some of these problems are very hard. Which is why it takes generations to solve them. I am sure rothbard would not appreciate what I have done. Hoppe isn’t going to love me any day soon. But it took us three generations to solve this problem. Each of us improving upon the last. I could have moved much faster if Hoppe had given me some of his time. But I suspect the conceptual bridge would have been a bridge too far. Unfortunately he was the only person worth talking to. So I had to do it almost all on my own. But with a little help from the Critical rationalists. The critical rationalists are still mad at me. But they were a necessary resource in the solution to the problem. If I can’t bring them along, then I can’t. It’s not important.

  • (Diary) Progress on Deception in Literature and Philosophy

    [G]reat progress on this problem of literature and deception that I have been struggling with for years. I have these periods where I think I am not making progress, and then I make a great deal of progress in a few days. The periods where I make little progress are just records of the effort it takes to solve some of these problems. Some of these problems are very hard. Which is why it takes generations to solve them. I am sure rothbard would not appreciate what I have done. Hoppe isn’t going to love me any day soon. But it took us three generations to solve this problem. Each of us improving upon the last. I could have moved much faster if Hoppe had given me some of his time. But I suspect the conceptual bridge would have been a bridge too far. Unfortunately he was the only person worth talking to. So I had to do it almost all on my own. But with a little help from the Critical rationalists. The critical rationalists are still mad at me. But they were a necessary resource in the solution to the problem. If I can’t bring them along, then I can’t. It’s not important.

  • Myth, Religion, Literature, Philosophy, as Promises of Opportunity for Free Riding

    [W]hy do we love myth, religion, literature, philosophy, so dearly and pursue history, science, and the various grammars (logics) of calculation with such reluctance? The method of communication is experiential in the first and not so in the second. Our mythology promises opportunities to free ride. The truth does not.

  • Myth, Religion, Literature, Philosophy, as Promises of Opportunity for Free Riding

    [W]hy do we love myth, religion, literature, philosophy, so dearly and pursue history, science, and the various grammars (logics) of calculation with such reluctance? The method of communication is experiential in the first and not so in the second. Our mythology promises opportunities to free ride. The truth does not.

  • Wishful Thinkers as Hosts for Deceit

    [W]ishful thinkers all, we are easy prey for the literature of deceit whose plots promise free riding in a universe whose red queen we struggle to race. We long for suggestion. We long for entertainment. We long for respite that our Myths, Religion, Literature and philosophy provide for us. But we must not confuse fantasy with reality. When the curtains close, and the house lights rise, nature still awaits us.

  • Wishful Thinkers as Hosts for Deceit

    [W]ishful thinkers all, we are easy prey for the literature of deceit whose plots promise free riding in a universe whose red queen we struggle to race. We long for suggestion. We long for entertainment. We long for respite that our Myths, Religion, Literature and philosophy provide for us. But we must not confuse fantasy with reality. When the curtains close, and the house lights rise, nature still awaits us.

  • Worth Repeating for Newbs: The End of Pseudo-Austrian(Ukrainian) Libertarianism.

    [I] love Hoppe as an involuntary mentor and human being. But I had to reform (kill off) rothbardian libertarianism if I wanted to reunite conservatism (aristocracy) and liberty (anglo libertarianism) A LIST OF HOPPE’S ERRORS http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/07/31/a-list-of-hans-hermann-hoppes-errors/ RENDERING ROTHBARD ARGUMENTATIVELY IMPOSSIBLE http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2014/06/20/rendering-rothbardian-fallacies-intellectually-embarrassing-and-argumentatively-impossible/ MISES WORK IS A FAILURE TO DEVELOP ECONOMIC OPERATIONALISM http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/