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It’s hard to see the old PPA publishing some of what the new PPA has been publishing, although that’s not…
Richard, this is all fair and certainly, impressions of the current quality of the discipline are a subjective matter. I…
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…
This is a friendly and balanced look at Hoffa's achievements on behalf of truck drivers and other working people, prompted by the Scorcese film The Irishman (which isn't bad, but it's just standard Scorcese mafia fare and does no justice to Hoffa's actual work).
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