An excerpt (mostly blather, but this was apt): We do not need to agree on everything, indeed we should not. I am pleased to say we do not need a foreign policy: we are not a country. Nor do we need a ...

Since I began taking summer blogging hiatuses, blog traffic has stabilized at a new norm of roughly 3.1 million unique visits per year (3.2 million last year, as it happens). (Page views are higher, ...

Professor Miller, a longtime member of the philosophy faculty at the University of Warwick, was a well-known defender of Karl Popper's philosophy of science and epistemology, and also wrote widely in ...

It's a good question, asked by my colleague Tom Ginsburg, discussing the latest stupidity to emanate from the clueless academics populating the AAUP's Committee A (Professor Ginsburg discusses the ...

I have never tried to post memorial notices for all the many teachers of philosophy who die in a given year (I just do not have the time for that). I have tried to limit memorial notices to those who ...

As things stand now, Trump may legitimately win the election next month; he will definitely win if the polls are again under-estimating his support as they did in 2016 and 2020.* If he does, it will ...

A very entertaining lecture from 1991 [click on the PDF button] (which I learned about via Phillip Bricker's recent review of materials from Lewis's Nachlass).). The lecture contains a crisp statement ...

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