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It’s sad to see departments reinstate GREs and see others advocating for it. Back in 2020, I wrote an open…
Indeed that remark resonates with our topic, but note that it comes from a very early and never published essay.…
In the context of this blog, I am somewhat surprised nobody has mentioned Nietzsche! “What then is truth? … a…
We haven’t discussed this in our department (lower ranked PGR but tend to get highly competitive/very large applicant pool) but…
If you were the head recruiter for a professional basketball team, would you require height and weight measurements for prospective…
I wonder if people are familiar with Fred Schauer’s essay on Kelsen and Fuller. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3607099
If knowledge is sociologically conditioned, then what, exactly, happens to the truth-status of the sociology of knowledge itself? This is…
Following up on yesterday's post about "Bronx Socrates," reader Mike G. calls to my attention "Young Plato," about a teacher sharing philosophy with his young pupils in a tough working class area of Belfast:
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