Blogs about Philosophy

Tiki culture rests on a history of exploitation and appropriation. What does that mean for us today? Continue reading → The post How to Enjoy a Tiki Bar Without Guilt appeared first on Aesthetics for …

Freedom is an online performance by Eva and Franco Mattes. Its setting is the infamous FPS video game Counter-Strike. Eva, as an Avatar/Soldier, roams the battlefield begging everyone she meets not to shoot her because …

Yes, this is my first post in almost a year. I’m no longer prioritizing this blog, but I will still occasionally post something. I wrote ~2 years ago that it was hard to point to …

Pessimism today has an ambivalent status. On the one hand, even a cursory glance at the world reveals a depressing abundance of dreadful events, tendencies, and phenomena. Wars, violence, the immense immiseration of human lives, …

My book Immortal Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature will be published this summer by Editiones Scholasticae. At well over 500 pages, it's my longest book yet. Here are the back cover copy, endorsements, and …

I continue my 5-year review of some highlights from the “abandon significance” movement from 2019. This post was first published on this blog on November 30, 2019, It was based on a call by then …

Perhaps if we lived on a crest, things would be different. We could at least see.A pleb filter is a piece of art which, by virtue of its impenetrability, "filters out" people with bad taste. …

I was not familiar with Professor Miščević, but philosopher Marko Jurjako from the Universit of Rijeka (who is also the EIC of the European Journal of Analytic Philosophy) shared this very interesting message about his …

“Not being able to give up is not to be able to allow for loss, for vulnerability; not to be able to allow for the passing of time, and the revisions it brings.” “A self …

The psychology of self is much more straightforward than I expected. All I had to do was search for ‘Self-*’ - most things related to self were helpfully titled some variant of Self-Something. Starting with …

Different policies introduced by a social planner, whether the government of a country or the head of an institution, lead to situations in which different peoples' lives go better or worse. That is, in the …

In Religion as Make-Believe, Neil Van Leeuwen argues that factual beliefs (for example, that there’s beer in the fridge) differ greatly from “religious credences” (for example, that God is a trinity). Although people commonly say …

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Join me in person on Sunday 23 April, 3-4pm in The Round George’s function room, 14-15 Sutherland Avenue, Brighton, BN2 0EQ. You will have an opportunity to ASK ME ANYTHING! about the project. And together …

Formal decision theory is a tool -- a tool that breaks, a tool we can do without, a tool we optionally deploy and can sometimes choose to violate without irrationality. If it leads to paradox …