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A Philosophy & COVID-19 Bibliography

Jef Delvaux, a Ph.D. student in philosophy at York University, has undertaken the project of putting together a bibliography of writings by philosophers about the COVID-19 pandemic and related issues. (more…)

Toward a More Expansive Conception of Philosophy (guest post by Angela Potochnik)

To whom are we as philosophers speaking and responding; whom do we judge as being worthy of dialogue and, hopefully, our intellectual contributions? (more…)

No Escape from Metaphysics

I think the contemporary scene is thriving. But you still run into critics of metaphysics. I find these critics genuinely puzzling. Let me try to explain why. (more…)

The Ethics of Social Distancing (and Why It Doesn’t Rule Out Protesting) (guest post by Travis N. Rieder)

“When I began writing this essay, public health-minded folks were arguing that social distancing is morally required, and expressing dismay at the pictures of partiers and beach-goers that surfaced after Memorial Day weekend. Just a couple weeks later, however, attention had shifted to the nationwide demonstrations against racism and police brutality, which was supp..

A History of Philosophy Journals Using Topic Modeling (guest post by Brian Weatherson)

When you go looking for patterns in over 32,000 academic philosophy articles, what will you learn? (more…)

New Map of SEP Based on Reciprocated Entries

A new visualization of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) displays the connections between each article and the “related entries” listed at the end of it. (more…)

The Role of Philosophy & Philosophers In The Coronavirus Pandemic (guest post)

In a previous post, I asked for suggestions from readers for topics related to the pandemic to post about and discuss here. One suggestion, from Jonathan Fuller (Pittsburgh), was the role of philosophy and philosophers during the pandemic. In the following guest post*, Alex Broadbent, Dean of Faculty of the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of Instit..

Underappreciated Philosophical Writing of the Past 50 Years, Part 5: 2010s

In this, the last post in our series of underappreciated writing of the past 50 years, we turn to 2010-2019. (more…)

Underappreciated Philosophical Writing of the Past 50 Years, Part 4: 2000s

Our series of posts on underappreciated writings of the past 50 years moves to the 2000s. (more…)

Underappreciated Philosophical Writing of the Past 50 Years, Part 3: 1990s

Continuing our series of underappreciated philosophical writing of the past 50 years, we turn now to the 1990s. (more…)

Underappreciated Philosophical Writing of the Past 50 Years, Part 2: 1980s

Last week we began a decade-by-decade series on underappreciated philosophical writing of the past 50 years. (more…)

Underappreciated Philosophical Writing of the Past 50 Years, Part 1: 1970s

Not everything notable gets noticed, and that’s true in philosophy, too. (more…)

Intuitions, Common Sense, and “Earning the Right” to Judgments about Philosophy

“Intuitions and common sense are not, I claim, a good basis on which to reach philosophical conclusions.” (more…)

Improvement in Philosophy over Time

“If Aristotle lived today, there is no way that he would be an Aristotelian.” That winning line is from a recent critique of the history of philosophy by Michael Huemer (Colorado). (more…)

“As science advances, there is more, not less, for philosophy to do”

In a recent interview, Scott Soames, distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California, offers up a description of philosophy. It’s a version of one in his recent book, The World Philosophy Made. (more…)

Philosophical Intuitions and Demographic Differences

Philosophers are disagreeing over what lessons should be learned from the growing body of work on the interplay between demographics and philosophical intuitions. (more…)

Philosophy and “The Empirically Tractable”

I think you are right to be suspicious of the tendency of this institutional paradigm to postulate truths that are ‘basic’, ‘ultimate’ or ‘fundamental’ just at the point where things begin to look interesting or problematic from the point of view of those we in the profession pretentiously refer to as ‘non-philosophers’. (more…)

Philosophers as Discoverers of the Unknown (Questions for World Philosophy Day)

“I didn’t even know that was a question I could ask.” (more…)

Is X-Phi P-Hacked? (guest post by Mike Stuart, Edouard Machery and David Colaço)

Has experimental philosophy (“X-Phi”) exhibited signs of “p-hacking”? In this guest post*, Mike Stuart (Geneva), Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh), and David Colaço (Mississippi) report their findings. (more…)

A Lesson of the Global History of Philosophy: Humility

“There’s something profoundly and instructively humbling in the realization that contemporary thought is not as far advanced as we are often inclined to suppose.” (more…)

Common Sense and Philosophical Method

What’s the relationship between common sense and philosophy?

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Triumphantly Breaking Free from Academic Philosophy, But Still…

In 2015 I received the National Humanities Medal at a ceremony at the White House. President Obama himself put the medal around my neck, and the rumor was that he made the final choice. In the speech he gave before awarding all the medals, in addition to citing my work on Gödel and Spinoza and Plato, he spoke of me as the philosopher who sometimes chooses to write n..

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