Category Archives: Psychology

Fischer Black Redux: The Impossible Circularity of a Metaphysical Argument

Posted on July 3, 2013 by pilkingtonphil

In the last piece on Fischer Black we saw how he created, in his own mind, an entity called “noise” which, for him, explained all the shortcomings of the world. But such raises an important question: shortcomings in the face … Continue reading →

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Fischer Black, Noise and the Encounter With The Trickster

Posted on July 2, 2013 by pilkingtonphil

In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphic animal who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal rules and conventional behavior. — Wikipedia Mathematics is often thought of … Continue reading →

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Nazism and Neoliberal Mythmaking, Part II: The State as Killer

Posted on June 21, 2013 by pilkingtonphil

In the first part of this series we laid out how those who wanted political power in post-war Western Germany sought out a myth with which they could at once wipe of the Nazi past and push their ideological line. … Continue reading →

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Nazism and Neoliberal Mythmaking, Part I: German Reconstruction as State-Phobia

Posted on June 20, 2013 by pilkingtonphil

In a previous series of pieces about the origins of neoliberalism (available here: Part I, Part II, Part III and an interview) I put forward the idea that neoliberalism – and its extremist offshoot, libertarianism as represented by the Austrian … Continue reading →

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