Blogs about Philosophy

A media scholar explains autofiction and looks at how it is embodied in Natalie Wynn's ContraPoints videos. Continue reading → The post How Autofiction, the Buzzy Literary Category, Helps Us Make Sense of YouTube appeared …

On the 31st of May 2024, Dos Monos, the experimental hip-hop group formed by Zo Zhit, Taitan, and NGS, returns to the music of the past in order to plunder it. If the American theorist …

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 …

“In this post, I want to encourage a conversation about active steps that we—all of us who love, teach, and write philosophy—might take to help philosophy’s future.” There are many concerns about the future of …

You don’t often see thinkers dedicating more than passing remarks against veganism. After all, being kind to animals is not a controversial attitude. On moral and practical grounds, dismissing veganism is not easy. That is …

My six-part video course on Six Arguments for the Existence of God is available for free from the Word on Fire Institute. A short preview and sign-up information are available here. An interview about the …

. Has the “abandon significance” movement in statistics trickled down into philosophy of science? A little bit. Nowadays (since the late 1990’s [i]), probabilistic inference and confirmation enter in philosophy by way of fields dubbed …

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. …

Professor Ashworth, a Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Waterloo, was a renowned expert on medieval logic and philosophy of language. The Waterloo page has more about her work, and there is a brief …

I have found that the surest way of seeing the wondrous in something ordinary, something previously underappreciated, is coming to love someone who loves it. As we enter each other’s worlds in love — whatever …

When you learn about the psychology of self, one obvious place to search for is personality psychology. Branch of psychology that studies personality and its variations. These show how individuals differ from each other. But …

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 …

Plato’s Laws is a wide-ranging and complex work of political philosophy, and recognition of its significance has been on the rise in recent decades. Matching it in richness, range, and complexity, André Laks’s Plato’s Second …

In Russian there is another term which is difficult to translate — Воля (volya), it means open space in all senses, i.e. a psychologically open space and landscape with no limits. So ‘volya’ is the …

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 …

I'm not a metaethicist, but I am a moral realist (I think there are facts about what really is morally right and wrong) and also -- bracketing some moments of skeptical weirdness -- a naturalist …