Tucker Carlson's son quits JD Vance's team after pundit suggested Trump might be 'Antichrist' News from inside the belly of the beast. JD Vance is best bud with Tucker Carlson. Back in the day, Tucker got his ambitious son, Buckley Carlson, a job on Vance's staff. I personally like to imagine that the rest of the staff called him Skippy. That was back when Carlson, Vance, and Trump were all posing alike in their professed opposition to the neoconservatives of the Bush family circle and their forever wars. Now, Trump is the wartime president, Carlson (bless his otherwise infernal soul) will not abide that. Vance has no choice but to abide whatever Trump does and put a smile on his face while Trump does it, devastating as it may be to JD's chances of prevailing as a peace candidate in 2028. Also devastating to Skip Carlson's chances of being a bigshot. Imagine my despair.
You are looking for a second consecutive day at a fossil-disclosed jungle cat inspired by thought experiments over whether p was true already in ancient times. I go back today to the issue raised in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy in an article earlier this year by Fabio Lampert and John William Waldrop. The point is not to settle the issue of what is free will and is it real. The point, rather, is in logical analytical fashion to render clear "previously underappreciated constraints on defenses of closure-based arguments against the existence of free will." Who are they? Lampert is affiliated with the University of Vienna, apparently a postdoctoral researcher there. Waldrop's affiliation is with Notre Dame. They seem often to have worked together. As I understand it, they are saying that various promising arguments against free will require a principle of closure, and that whether they have such a principle available in the sens...