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    Philosophers Carnival #162 is. . .

    HERE.

    Lot's of great stuff. Epistemology and ethics form a strong plurality this month. There are two by newappsers and one by friend of the blog Joshua Knobe and one cool interview with friend of the blog Roy Cook.

    Very happy to see Aesthetics for Birds' Christy Mag Uidhir interviewing Cook about his Lego work. My second punkrockmonday three years ago post was dedicated to his jawdroppingly awesome Lego building skills. Uidhir's interview is pretty awesome and has some more recent of Cook's work.

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    2 responses to “Philosophers Carnival #162 is. . .”

    1. Christy Mag Uidhir Avatar
      Christy Mag Uidhir

      Thanks for the link, Jon! For the record though, my full surname is [Mag Uidhir]–pronounced like [Maguire].

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    2. Jon Cogburn Avatar
      Jon Cogburn

      Oh man, sorry. I’ve got it fixed now. Love your blog, and it’s weird to think I’ve been misunderstanding your name for I don’t know how long (with the elided d I somehow assumed that it was Hungarian, which makes no sense on its own, because the closest would be “Uighur” which is a Turkish ethnic group that lives in China).
      Generally, if spell check doesn’t get it I’ll probably mess it up.
      For anyone interested, there’s a pretty cool account of the history of Mag Uidhir at “family tree DNA”: https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Mag-Uidhir. According to it the first written spelling of the name is 956 in the Annals of Ulster. That’s pretty old! It predates the first written record of “Cockburn” (now Cogburn/Coburn/Cobain etc.) by over two hundred years.

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