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June 1, 2026. To: Dr. Leiter. Open access unlimited and unending. Today Date: 2026 June 1. Unending until 2715. Free…
Andrei Rodin is circulating a letter demanding the liberation of Svetlana Mesyats: https://philomatica.org/2026/05/open-letter-in-support-of-svetlana-messiats/. The prosecution has demanded a sentence of…
Carlos Alberto Sánchez’s A Sense of Brutality: Philosophy after Narco-Culture (Amherst College Press, 2020) is a finalist for the 2026…
The treatment of these scholars is atrocious and terrifying. Perhaps it is worth comparing Vladimir Putin’s conception of scholarship and…
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii
David J. Gunkel «Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond» (MIT, 2023) Link:…
This is pretty funny, though it overstates my hostility to some of the crazies at the Volokh blog–though I do enjoy making fun of some of them, for the reasons suggested by the motto proposed for that blog!
ADDENDUM: And by the same author, book reviews Judge Posner might have written.
Over the years I have found Virginia Held’s work especially valuable for thinking about Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of…