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The stigmatisation of certain theories, counter-intuitive to many, as ‘preposterous’ should be avoided. It is not ultimately conducive to discovering…
I think Daniel and Bryan are both right. Peter Ludlow ends his piece cited in the report defending the Analytics…
Interesting that Daniel Came and I both have happy memories of being taught logic as undergraduates by Timothy Smiley even…
In partial contrast, I can’t think of a time when philosophy was more interesting or impressive compared to today. The…
I chatted with the Ludwig Wittgenstein bot and was overall quite impressed. It confirmed a hypothesis I previously had that…
I’m a little bit disappointed that no one here thus far has posted a comment on Iain Thomson’s recent Heidegger…
There was a moment, back in the mid-2010s, when these clowns were ascendent and in a position to impose real…
You will want to read historian Juan Cole’s informative post about the Republican "report" on Iran intelligence.
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