Latest links…
- The practical and philosophical value of analytic jurisprudence — a defense from Barbara Levenbook
- “Collective beliefs… are both ubiquitous and highly consequential constituents of the social world” — Margaret Gilbert’s 2024 Presidential Address at the Pacific APA
- “The apostle of ignorance” — Cass Sunstein’s short book on Hayek for the Cambridge Elements series is open access through December 9th
- “Equality talk can feel so disorienting! Even among philosophers, it consistently promises more than it delivers” — some clarity might come from looking at the concept’s history, argues Teresa Bejan
- We’re trained to anticipate objections and couch our claims in caveats, but is that what today’s communication context calls for? — “The caveat is dead,” says Joshua Miller
- “[H]ow quickly… we get from wanting (of course rightly) to protect women and girls from violence—to actually imposing a new risk of violence upon them” — Sophie Grace Chappell writes to JK Rowling
- Is pervasive substantive philosophical disagreement evidence for skepticism about philosophy? — “What kind of skepticism?” asks Duncan Pritchard. Pyrrhonian or Academic?
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