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John was my undergrad advisor. I wouldn’t have gone to graduate school without his suggesting it, and his help with…
He was a serious and brilliant thinker and writer, whose work was not only profoundly insightful but also an immense…
Sad news. I only met him a couple of times (he was one of those US philosophers with strong Australasian…
This is a wonderful corrective to panic over people who can’t distinguish between real paintings and AI-generated paintings — the…
This isn’t meant as a comment on Pangram specifically, but doesn’t putting papers through an AI tool risk ‘leaking’ the…
The cover image of this book on Kant (https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/kants-doctrine-of-virtue-9780190939236?cc=ca&lang=en&) is actually based on a portrait of a philosophical rival, F.…
I have to say that I have changed my mind on this issue in the last year or so. I…
I'd never seen this clip before, a recording of a live studio session with two great blues guitarists:
(Thanks to Frank Saunders for the pointer.)
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