Blogs about Philosophy

Spotify and its bizarre, hyper-specific genres are rewriting how we understand music. Why? And should we bother fighting back? Continue reading → The post How Spotify and its Genres Define Who We Are appeared first …

‘Listen to your body: all you have to do is wear it’This is the promise of the FitBit Inspire 3, launched in 2022. This is a product, the ad tells us, that ‘makes fitness so …

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 …

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of 16 of its prizes. – Below are the prizes and their winners. 2024 AI2050 Prizes ($10,000 each. Awarded in recognition of outstanding philosophical scholarship relating …

Would it matter if the entire human race became extinct?1 I ask this question not because of any hostility towards human beings – as is fashionable in some circles, humans being seen as the poisonous …

You might suppose from the title of Etienne Gilson’s The Unity of Philosophical Experience that it is a book about philosophy in general. And ultimately it is. But its bulk is devoted to detailed accounts …

2024 Cruise We are now at stop 3 on our December leisurely cruise through SIST: Excursion 3 Tour III. I am pasting the slides and video from this session during the LSE Research Seminars in …

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. …

April Marx's critique of Stirner "On Gutting the Liberal Arts" "Law is a Moral Practice" (it isn't, actually, except sometimes by accident) Stipends for Canadian Ph.D. students Refereeing frequency, redux (see also) Cambridge University college …

“A persona is a portal we are not aware of passing through,” my beloved editor Dan Frank wrote in an unpublished poem shortly before the insentient atoms that composed him, this singular and unrepeatable person, …

After taking a long break from working on belief systems(and writing a book in the meantime), I think it’s time to get back to belief system. The problem that got me stuck was how to …

Nicholas Shackel (Cardiff) has a new book out that might be of interest to readers, and there is a discount code available that Nick has asked me to pass on. Details below.Bertrand’s Paradox and the …

Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism is the result of a long scholarly investigation of topics related to early modern forms of experimentation and the emergence of what is called “the experimental philosophy.” It …

You are said to be a conservative anarchist. What is conservative about your work?Just open my books. The grammar is conservative, almost epically so. It comes from distance, as Dante said. In his case, people …

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 …

Suppose we take the "simulation hypothesis" seriously: We might be living not in the "base level" of reality but instead inside of a computer simulation. I've argued that if we are living in a computer …