What is philosophy?
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“Why does philosophy have a history?”
A lecture by Michael Rosen at the Royal Institute of Philosophy in London.
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What can philosophy contribute to the effort to make AI helpful in the empirical sciences and mathematics?
Reader Matteo Bianchetti writes: Thanks very much for your list of the most cited books in the philosophy of empirical sciences. Reading that list made me think of the following. Several prominent AI companies are promoting the use of AI to advance the empirical sciences and mathematics. This is an example. These companies collaborate with…
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The 100 “most significant” figures in history…
…as compiled by Time magazine using various data sources. Here are the philosophers who made the list (with their rank): 8. Aristotle 14. Marx 25. Plato 42. Nietzsche 59. Kant 64. Voltaire 68. Socrates 72. Augustine 79. Cicero 80. Rousseau 81. Francis Bacon 90. Aquinas 92. Descartes 100. Locke Aristotle ahead of Plato must surely…
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Struggling with addiction
In the wake of the horrible murder of Rob Reiner and his wife by, it appears, their son who had spent half his life struggling with drug addictions, the NYT runs a story about families dealing with addictions in their children. Predictably, one of the parents explains that addiction “is a disease.” Except it isn’t…
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Edouard Machery on PhilosophyBites discusses convergence and divergence in intuitions…
…between philosophers and the “folk.”
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“Bloodless Pedantry”
Philosopher Tim Crane on “analytic” philosophy: If analytic philosophers were to reflect in a more disinterested, less defensive way about their tradition, it could help them understand why philosophers of other traditions find it so obscure, and why those outside philosophy can find it so pointless. The truth is that the point of philosophical questions…
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Williamson “the bullet-biter”
I found this review of Timothy Williamson’s latest book by philosopher Daniel Greco illuminating, and it raises some deep issues about methodology in analytic philosophy. Curious what informed readers think about all this.
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…