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Newsworthy Philosophy

Kwame Anthony Appiah has an article in the New York Times Magazine on experimental philosophy.

Actually, *politics* is the experimental wing of political philosophy….

“Social software is the experimental wing of political philsophy, a discipline that doesn’t realize it has an experimental wing. We are literally encoding the principles of freedom of speech and freedom of expression in our tools.”
–Notes from a talk by Clay Shirky(?)
Shirky compares a Buffy fansite to Slashdot and suggests that moderated listservs are tyrannical. [...]