Philosophy in the News
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Greene on Guerrero on “lottocracy”
We’ve noted philosopher Alex Guerrero’s striking work on lottocracy in the past. I want to commend to interested readers the very informative and nuanced review by Amanda Greene. She makes one of the most interesting criticisms of lottocracy, one I had not seen elsewhere: Guerrero admits that it might seem that lottocratic institutions offer citizens…
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy is going “open access”
CJP has always been a very reputable generalist journal (on the edge of the “top ten”), but this development should increase its appeal to prospective authors!
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Three philosophers receive 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships
They are: Alan Baker (Swarthmore), Kate Manne (Cornell) and Gina Schouten (Harvard). (Thanks to a couple of readers who noted my inadvertent omission of Professor Baker when I first posted this.)
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A new “International Society for Moral Psychology”
Membership is currently free!
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What is it like to be a philosopher? Felipe de Brigard edition
Here, courtesy of Clifford Sosis.
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It’s a good thing Ross Douthat doesn’t know any philosophy…
…or he wouldn’t have been able to write this silly book full of bad arguments for religious belief. It’s as though Hume, Darwin, Lyell, David Strauss etc. never existed with these folks.
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Empedocles finally publishes something new!
Well, not exactly, but an old manuscript has been newly discovered. (Thanks to Peter Kail for the pointer.)
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“A Debate about Hyperintensionalism”
A transcript of a debate between Kit Fine and Timothy Williamson at Oxford. This is about as good as contemporary analytic philosophy gets, although how one interprets that fact may vary! But if you want to see what the best are doing, here it is.
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Most cited Anglophone books on Hegel according to Google Scholar (CORRECTED)
I list every book with at least 700 citations (since numbers drop off here pretty quick).
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Consciousness, computation, and animal minds
Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith discusses.
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Schopenhauer on the will
Philosopher David Bather Woods offers an account of this sometimes elusive and confusing concept that is central for Schopenhauer.
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Chinese philosophers publishing in Anglophone journals in 2025
Philosopher Jinze Liu (刘金泽), who teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Baoji University of Arts and Sciences, has compiled lists on his influential WeChat platform here and here. (Some of these Chinese scholars are now working in the U.S.)
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More on “left” moralizing
A propos last week’s post, this remark from Jake McNulty’s very good book on Marcuse (in my Routledge Philosophers series) is also apt: A final observation: Marcuse’s profound investment in psychoanalytic thought appears to have no parallel among the analytic critical theorists [e.g., Haslanger, Manne, Stanley]. In leftist thought and practice, psychoanalysis has often served…
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Fraser on Habermas
Interesting, and a useful synoptic overview. I, of course, agree with her that Habermas is the one who finished off Critical Theory. She does not comment on the fact that discourse ethics was always predicated on a highly implausible theory of meaning and language use. UPDATE: A reader points out, fairly, that this comment by…
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More on the late Ali Larijani, Kant scholar and tyrant
Prior to the recent U.S./Israeli war of aggression against Iran, Larijani led the vicious repression of protests against the theocratic regime. This Haaretz profile is quite interesting, and discusses his work on Kant (email me if you have a link that is not paywalled). The Wikipedia claim that he wrote on Kripke and Lewis appears…
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that