Blogs about Philosophy

Five academics review "Cowboy Carter" from different angles: genre, place and community, politics and the market, and the boldness of Beyoncé herself. Continue reading → The post Five Scholars Discuss Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” appeared first …

The system is broken. The celebrity is brighter than the sun. Only she can decide when it is day. There’s a sentiment amongst Swifies that if you wrong Taylor Swift, you will fall. They call …

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 …

Christopher Hamilton’s “Rapture” is a very pleasant, well-written, intelligent, and inspiring essay on the many meanings of human lives. On the downside, its essayistic nature also means that it somewhat lacks focus and direction. It …

Prominent philosopher of mind, apostle of Darwinism, and New Atheist writer Daniel Dennett has died. I have been very critical of Dennett over the years, but he had two great strengths. First, he wrote with …

This is the guest post by Bran Haig on July 12, 2019 in response to the “abandon statistical significance” editorial in The American Statistician (TAS) by Wasserstein, Schirm, and Lazar (WSL 2019). In the post …

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. …

This is depressing, based on data revealed during a DOJ suit opposing a book publisher merger.

“Loving is perennial vivification… a centrifugal act of the soul in constant flux that goes toward the object and envelops it in warm corroboration, uniting us with it and positively affirming its being.” It is …

As I start my new ‘Know Thyself’ project, the first place I got to is Philosophy. Yes, it’s a crutch. Thankfully, but typically, philosophy has a lot to talk about it. The idea of ‘No-self’ …

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 the first chapter of his often entertaining but rather exasperating book, Scott Hershovitz gives two different formulations of its central thesis that “law is a moral practice.” In one formulation, “legal practices—like legislation and …

I seriously ask myself, What is the meaning of all this? Why raise questions, throw lights, or see shadows? Wouldn’t it be better if I buried my tears in the sand on a seashore in …

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 …

Daniel Dennett has died, and the world has lost possibly its most important living philosopher.[Image: Dennett in 2012]My most vivid memory of Dennett is from a long face-to-face meeting I had with him in 2007 …