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A Graphic Review of a Graphic Philosophy Book (guest post by Adam Ferner)

August 10, 2017

The following is a guest post* by Adam Ferner (Royal Institute of Philosophy).
Philosophy and Culture

“The Counterfactuals” Review & Giveaway

June 10, 2016

The new, self-titled album by The Counterfactuals, a rock band that is 3/4 philosophers, has just been released. Below is a review of it by…

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Techniques Urbaines on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
Important issue regarding free speech
Student Philosopher on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Do you really believe this?
Just Saying on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
The new study of philosophy journal standings provides interesting historical information, going back many years. For example, it can indirectly reveal how journals can improve their quality and…
Brian Weatherson on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
There is no magic button for "remove unlabelled review articles". You need to have a formula that a python/R/whatever script can run, and you need to check it…
ERW on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
Your argument appears to be that a human would have not thought to do what many humans on Daily Nous suggested you do as soon as they saw…
Graham Harman on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
When you do this, you're just doubling down on giving all the authority to the standard gatekeepers of "mainstream" philosophy. The kinds of people who are normally invited…
Mourinho on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
I fully disagree with Mark's conspiratorial comments on the Ayaan Hirsi Ali podcast, and in fact think less of him for going on her podcast in the first…
Jessie Ewesmont on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
He has a right to say whatever he wants without being arrested. He doesn't have a right to spout looney tunes tinfoil nonsense and maintain an executive position…
SCM on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
I don’t see this as an issue to be determined by the contours of the constitutional right to free speech in South Africa. If Oppenheimer were a ministerial…
Kenny Easwaran on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
It's actually remarkable how similar this list is to the last Leiter poll I found (https://leiterreports.com/2022/08/23/best-general-journals-of-philosophy-2022-via-the-condorcet-method-and-via-an-average-of-both-methods/) Ignoring specialty journals, your list is: Phil Review Phil Perspectives Mind JPhil…
Brian Weatherson on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
It's not even "AI-produced" in any interesting sense. It's produced by a python script from standard sources. That script was written by AI, but that's not particularly relevant;…
Just Saying on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
These rankings are based on data that go back 36 years. For much more recent data and an extremely thorough, professional study, see this on Daily Nous: https://dailynous.com/2023/12/04/new-meta-ranking-of-philosophy-journals/
Azat Sadri on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
"I invite everyone to recognize the damage here" I am a member of a philosophy department (teacher) and am currently writing a PhD, and, in my view, the…
WiseGuy on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
To be clear, I certainly don't think that you should lose that position on the board for making these remarks. If every board member was losing their position…
WiseGuy on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
First video is so edited, it's hard to see what's going on. Some of what it shows is definitely abhorrent ways of protesting against Israel though, and I've…

Tag: review

A Graphic Review of a Graphic Philosophy Book (guest post by Adam Ferner)

“The Counterfactuals” Review & Giveaway