Month: June 2014

At present, the small gestures made toward greater inclusiveness can in fact lead only to somewhat more robust representation of people who are all…

The primary value of Unger’s critique of philosophy may be that it generates good and thoughtful responses. There was Schliesser’s the other day, and also the post…

Meanwhile, elsewhere*  in The Weekly Standard, Abigail Lavin, an advertising and marketing professional who recently obtained her master’s degree in philosophy from Columbia, reviews…

The Weekly Standard has an article about the sexual misconduct allegations against a well-known professor of moral and political philosophy at Yale (previously). No…

Massimo Pigliucci doesn’t frame this recent post at his blog as a response to Unger, but… Now, why on earth did we engage in…

With the advance of certain technologies, we will soon be living in an era in which it will be very difficult, if not impossible,…

Prisoners who are subjected to solitary confinement show symptoms and describe a phenomenology that is not equivalent to either autism or induced autism, but…

Unger declares not once, but twice during the interview that he “knew, but didn’t want to know” that Wittgenstein was right about philosophy. Yet,…

Peter Unger’s new book and recent interview have been in the philosonews a lot lately. Meanwhile, in a nearby possible world… To start things…

An office block from the 1950s built atop David Hume’s house is being demolished, and historians are hoping to find Hume’s wine cellar underneath.…

Reading Quine’s “Two Dogmas”? You’re doing it all wrong, says Hilary Putnam.

Philosophers easily get the idea that somehow or other, just by considering things about the world that they already know, they can write up…

Rebecca Kukla (Georgetown) is looking for a fight. Are you old enough, small enough, and, most importantly, tough enough?