Category: philosophy
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Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
To what extent is the “the story about the analytic turn” in philosophy a story about politics?
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Adversarial Collaboration in Philosophy (guest post)
“Philosophical work would be better with adversaries collaborating to keep each other honest.”
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Yes I Like Piña Coladas: On Haecceities and the Normativity of Love (guest post)
The start of the school year is creeping up on us but it is still summer.
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New Writings by Empedocles Discovered
The ideas of 5th Century BCE philosopher Empedocles have reached us mostly* through paraphrases or fragmentary quotes of his work by later authors, but…
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What Is a Practical Joke?
It’s April Fools Day—a day of jokey trickery, of practical jokes.
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Lots More Leibniz
2000 pages of Leibniz, much of it previously untranslated or unpublished, will be published next month.
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What Can Professional Philosophers Learn from Philosophy for Children? (guest post)
“I should have presented my topic using the p4c [philosophy for children] method,” said a philosopher about about his talk at a conference on…
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Gratitude
In a previous Thanksgiving post that first appeared in 2016, I noted that a 1975 article in Ethics by Fred Berger (then a philosopher at…
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The Paradox of Analytic Philosophy’s Success
“The paradox is that the more analytic philosophy became dominant in the universities, the more it became removed from the concerns of the average…
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On Being Seriously Funny (guest post)
“I got into philosophy at least partly because it was comic and that’s still much of what I enjoy about it.”
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Against “Throwaway Culture” in Philosophy
Throwaway culture refers to a culture in which the consumption and production of many goods is based on the practice of discarding them after…
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New Interactive Visualization of Philosophy
Designer Deniz Cem Önduygu has built a new interactive visualization of philosophy.
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Most Cited Recent Philosophy Articles, Year by Year
“What philosophy journal article, published less than ten years ago, has the most citations in philosophy journals?”
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What Philosophical Idea Or Position Do You Find The Scariest?
[It has been eight years since this was posted, which is enough time, I think, for some new answers to have arisen…] It’s Halloween,…
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Some Very Good Recent Philosophy Articles
Let’s call a philosophy article “recent” if it has been published in the past five years.