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Robert Talisse

@roberttalisse

Political Philosopher || W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt || Latest Book: CIVIC SOLITUDE (Oxford UP, 2024)

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It's altogether too rare to spend an evening catching up with someone you'd not seen for over a decade and walk away really glad you did

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I think Bertrand Russell says somewhere that when evaluating the merits of a form of government or large-scale policy program, we should look not to how desirable its promised results are, but instead to how terrible things will get were it to be implemented but then fail

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Just saw an intact, whole human adult tooth sitting at the bottom of a urinal in a restroom at Reagan International in DC. Go figure

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Dystopian Ideal Theory: Before we can asses how bad things are, we first need to investigate just how bad is it possible for things to be

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Pick up a tele, and jangle/twang comes out... (Had to look up the name of this REM song - can't believe I remembered the chords). Still getting this into shape...

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I couldn't say for sure, but I might be the only distinguished professor of Philosophy in the world who knows how to play every song on *Walk Among Us*...