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Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyLinguistic Idealism as a Weapon of Poststructuralist/Postmodernist PoliticsThis is the follow up to my essay ‘Poststructuralism and Deconstruction as Forms of (Linguistic) Idealism’. My last essay was about…Jul 27, 20231Jul 27, 20231
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Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyPostmodern Physics: Post-Observation, Post-Evidence, Post-ExperimentIn the mid-1990s, the science journalist John Horgan interviewed various physicists (including Sheldon Glashow, Edward Witten and Steven…May 23, 202314May 23, 202314
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