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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…
I’m a little bit disappointed that no one here thus far has posted a comment on Iain Thomson’s recent Heidegger…
There was a moment, back in the mid-2010s, when these clowns were ascendent and in a position to impose real…
Philospoher Deborah Boyle, editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, kindly shared this news:
The Journal of the History of Philosophy has awarded its 2025 article prize to Joe Stratmann (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville) for his paper “Autonomy without Compromise: Wolff, Kant, and the Grounds of Moral Laws” (JHP 63.1 [January 2025]: 97–120), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hph.2025.a950465.
The stigmatisation of certain theories, counter-intuitive to many, as ‘preposterous’ should be avoided. It is not ultimately conducive to discovering…