News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics. The world’s most popular philosophy blog, since 2003.
Touché. And given the present thread, Rimbaud may have arrived rather more punctually than either of us had any right…
Correction to my post: it should have read “when I went to her home last summer”.
I first met Gabriele Taylor when I was a graduate student in philosophy at St. Anne’s, studying for the B.Phil.…
Dear Roger of Invisible America, Your remarks towards the end of this comment about Nat Goldhaber (I’ve got a friend…
A remembered Dreyfus remark on the Maharishi: I recall hearing Dreyfus say in a recorded lecture, perhaps twenty-five years ago,…
I just published in the new PPA and can say it was one of the most difficult, rigorous R&R’s of…
Eugene's response to the mass murder in Connecticut. Response of the first commenter: "This is just a gussied up, fancy law professor version of 'give everybody a gun!' The idea that adding more guns to elementary schools will, in the aggregate, reduce shootings seems plainly insane." This is also apt. Earlier winners from the hall of shame.
ADDENDUM: More morally deranged law professors in the updates here.
“Freedom’s just another word for Je est un autre.”