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“The finance industry is a grift”
(MOVING TO FRONT, THIS MAY NOT HAVE PUBLISHED PROPERLY THE FIRST TIME) It’s not every day that the NYT publishes an article by an economist arguing that one of the main industries in NYC is a “grift.” Since many law professors study this “grift,” I’m curious to hear why the author is wrong or right.…
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For those attending the Chicago APA, some restaurant recommendations
Easily walkable from the Hilton Palmer House: The Gage Longer walks (15-20 minutes) or short Uber rides: Umai (takes reservations for larger groups) Sunda (River North) Purple Pig Longer Uber ride (25 minutes or so) (but this is the best restaurant in Chicago in this price range): Han 202 Chicago readers, feel free to add…
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Open access philosophy books: a thread, part III
MOVING TO FRONT FROM DECEMBER 2 The last thread had 22 submissions, so I thought it’s time for a third thread. Instructions as before: In light of the growing number of these volumes, I am going to run a thread periodically in which I invite authors or readers to share links to philosophical works that…
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What to do about the sycophancy of large language models?
I don’t use them a lot, but I had noticed this tendency even for rather mundane queries.
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We’re just two weeks into 2026, and already the monster child and his minions…
That’s just in two weeks. God knows what horrors are coming.
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2025 in review, 1st quarter: January, February, March (moving to front from Dec. 26, for those who may have missed it)
January What articles in general jurisprudence form the first quarter of the 21st-century should you read? PGR in the real world, an ongoing saga The monster child’s first day with political power Should book authors consent to have generative AI train on their work? Tonight we’ll learn something about the next four years in America…
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Blast from the past: Five favorite Americans of the 20th-century?
Back in 2018–with my views and those of readers.
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My top 50 of 2025 according to Spotify, #1: Rumplestiltskin, “Make You Make Me,” 1970
I think I’ve finally exhausted the “great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll” that do not deserve their obscurity (arguably some I’ve posted also deserved it!). So for 2026, each Saturday, I’ll post the tunes Spotify tells me I listened to most in 2025; those who enjoyed the “obscure moments” postings will probably like many…
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Most cited Anglophone philosophy books on Nietzsche according to Google Scholar
Only books with at least 600 citations are listed; citations are rounded to the nearest hundred, as before.
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Here’s the CBS episode on deportees to El Salvador…
…that Trump’s water girl Bari Weiss didn’t want you to see.
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20th-century Anglophone philosophers with at least 20,000 citations on their Google Scholar pages
Many major and highly cited 20th-century Anglophone philosophers do not have Google Scholar pages, of course: e.g., Rawls, Putnam, Williams, Parfit, Davidson, P.F. Strawson, Grice, Searle, E. Nagel, Dummett, Sellars, Carnap, Hempel, Goodman, Raz, Dworkin, Hart, Ayer, Hacking, and Ramsey, among others. Some listed below have pages created by others. If I missed some deceased…
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Most cited living philosophers with Google Scholar pages who either work in multiple areas or in areas not covered in the prior ranking lists (CORRECTED)
Here are the 20 most highly cited philosophers with Google Scholar pages who either (1) work across multiple fields, so did not have a majority of their citations to work in any of the prior areas covered (metaphysics & epistemology, moral & political philosophy, philosophy of mind & cognitive science, philosophy of language, free will…
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Coming soon in “most cited” philosophers with Google Scholar pages
I am going to do a list of philosophers who have not fit neatly into any of the prior lists who nonetheless have large numbers of citations (e.g., Michael Bratman, Edouard Machery, Shaun Nichols among others). Historians of philosophy tend not to have Google Scholar pages it turns out. I welcome suggestions for other sub-fields…
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Which serious philosophy departments offer opportunities to study the post-Kantian Continental traditions in philosophy? 2025 edition
The landscape has changed in the last couple of years for Anglophone students who want to get a solid philosophy education and be able to study the post-Kantian Continental traditions in philosophy. Columbia University, long a top choice for Anglophone students, is no longer one: Frederick Neuhouser (Hegel, German Idealism) has retired, and Robert Gooding-Williams (Nietzsche)…
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Most cited living philosophers of language with Google Scholar pages
Once again, some folks who would likely be way up there–like David Kaplan, Stephen Neale, and Nathan Salmon–do not have Google Scholar pages. Some linguistics faculty are very important for philosophers of language (like Barbara Partee with 26,600 citations, and David Beaver with 11,400), but I’ve focused on those primarily in philosophy departments (linguistics tends…
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that