Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics. The world’s most popular philosophy blog, since 2003.

  1. Binary choice's avatar

    If you were the head recruiter for a professional basketball team, would you require height and weight measurements for prospective…

  2. Jeremy Telman's avatar
  3. Roger of Invisible America's avatar
  4. Brad's avatar
  5. LC's avatar

    I concur to a certain extent. I also scored very low on the writing section. Back then, GRE was required…

  6. Mark's avatar
  7. Anonymous's avatar

    I’m a graduate student in philosophy at a well-known terminal MA program who is applying to PhDs this fall and…

Let’s out-woke “the woke”: from now on David Hume will be known as “40 George Square”

A propos this:

"As 40 George Square argues in the Treatise…"

"Kant was awoken from his dogmatic slumber by reading 40 George Square…"

"Did you know that 40 George Square was not opposed to slavery?"

"According to the 40 George Squarean theory of motivation…"

(Thanks to my colleague Agnes Callard for the idea.)

UPDATE:  Courtesy of Greg Spendlove on Twitter.

 

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Designed with WordPress