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A review of Allen Wood’s Kantian Ethics Read the review

Judith Butler,‘What is Critique? An Essay on Foucault’s Virtue’ Robert J.C. Young,‘Foucault on Race and Colonialism’ Scu’s new blog, Critical Animal, entries on Foucault’s ‘Society Must Be Defended’

An article about experimental philosophy (as well as the new Knobe & Nichols x-phi anthology) came out today in Science Daily. Check it out here.

Luca Incurvati gave me a link to this (you see, it's non-stop serious work in the philosophy grad. centre).Yep, ok, it seems to be have been around for a good while: but I've only just seen it, and guess that it might be new to someone else too. Enjoy!

A new book:The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy: A Study of Ernst Tugendhat An interview with the author

The celebrated British philosopher and political theorist John Gray discusses the ways in which the Utopian aspirations of the secular left and right reflect the Christian heritage of Western political thought

In an attempt to solve the problem of how to make our collective surveys more accessible to people who might be interested in taking them, I have used Wordpress to create this blog. I haven't linked to any studies just...

Out of some dodge of fate What was to be my family reached the American shore a quarter century before my mother bore me and the Nazis stole the law So I am alive some sixty years later having avoided...

Blogging has been a bit light lately, in part because I was persuaded to teach half of a graduate seminar during the summer session. The first half of the seminar looked at philosophical approaches to epistemology (basically, a set of issues around what counts as knowledge and what could count as reasonable ways to build knowledge). The second half, which I am teaching, shifts the focus to what scientists seem to be doing when they build knowledge (or knowledge claims, ...

In case anyone remembers a post back in February which featured drawings by the elder Free-Ride offspring inspired by this kids' book about the elements ... Dr. Free-Ride: Hey, you found that book! I've been looking for it. Younger offspring: Yeah, I'm taking it with me to [the house of the grandparents who lurk but seldom comment] so I can read it while I'm there. Dr. Free-Ride: But I was going to review it while you were gone. Younger offspring: ...

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Sometimes, when reading a blog, you may get the feeling that the blogger's posts are infused by a fundamentally misguided assumption. But such deep-rooted disagreements can't typically be raised within the scope of any particular post. So consider this open thread an invitation. Do you find yourself raising an eyebrow at some of my basic presuppositions? Any disagreements that run so deep you wouldn't even know where to start? Try here!

Jonathan Livengood (Pitt, HPS) and I are currently running an on-line study (the fourth in a sequence) following up on Machery, Mallon, Nichols, and Stich's work on Kripke's Gödel case. We are currently looking for more subjects (philosophers welcome, but...

The celebrated British philosopher and political theorist John Gray discusses the ways in which the Utopian aspirations of the secular left and right reflect the Christian heritage of Western political thought. From Stalinist Russia to contemporary Iraq, he argues, the road to perfection is built over the bodies of the innocent.