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Elective Affinities

Elective Affinities examines how philosophy, culture, and economics interact in shaping modern life, using ideas from classical thought and contemporary theory to understand our changing world.

By Andrew Le Noir

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Elective Affinities

The Veil as Laundry

Decision Theory and the Smuggled Preferences of John Rawls

May 11•Andrew Le Noir

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Recent posts

The Nature of Economic Science

A Summary of and Elaboration on Roderick T. Long's 'Praxeological Investigations'

May 4•Andrew Le Noir

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Credo Quia Absurdum

Why Smart People Voluntarily Believe Nonsense and What Happened When They Stopped

Apr 25•Andrew Le Noir

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The Dog That Caught the Car

How Analytic Philosophy Returns to Plato

Apr 3•Andrew Le Noir

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Crumbs from the Table

A Love Letter to a Religion I Can't Believe In

Feb 20•Andrew Le Noir

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Contra Kant I: The Problem of Pure Reason

Why the first Critique fails at its own task

Jan 24•Andrew Le Noir

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The Phenomenology of Free Will

An exposition of the Bergsonian Position

Oct 12, 2025•Andrew Le Noir

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