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Correlation is *not* causation

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Natural language pragmatics can be challenging:

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"The Wizard of Oz," from the prespective of the witches:

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How to write a Zizek essay:

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A well-known philosopher of physics writes about his experiences with schizophrenia over the last several decades...

A well-known philosopher of physics writes about his experiences with schizophrenia over the last...

A remarkable and fascinating account, which we should all be grateful Professor Dickson chose to share. (Thanks to Nathan Ballantyne on Twitter for calling this to my attention.)

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In lieu of veal, they're offering...

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This clarifies things:

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Advice you didn't need:

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Another scholar has to take a new job for having "incorrect" views about gender.

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I'm no longer employed by ⁦ @Harvard ⁩ (but do have an affiliation in the Psych department) & in this convo⁩ I explain why. And very happy to announce that I have a new (mostly remote) home at ⁦ @AEI ⁩, as a Senior Fellow.

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Exactly.

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In Memoriam: Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)

A longtime member of the philosophy faculty at Tufts University, Professor Dennett was best-known within philosophy for his work in philosophy of mind and on free will, although outside philosophy he...

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If philosophical work inspired sensationalistic journalism:

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The Republican approach to water safety when sharks are around:

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On Habernas’s birthday, worth reposting this. An honorable man who played an important role in German public life, he also destroyed Critical Theory, turning it into the B version of bourgeois analytic political philosophy

A Republic of Discussion | The Point Magazine

Communication is not for Habermas a simple empirical phenomenon. Rather it has, in his view, the dual structure that is characteristic of the major ideological constructs of Western history, for...

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This is a funny meme, for anyone who has encountered Rawlsian "political liberalism" of the 1990s and after.

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This just isn't true. I find these kinds of tweets mystifying.

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God's selective protection...

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A public university cannot hire a faculty candidate because of their views on political or policy questions. This is straight up unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination if it really factored into the decision not to hire the candidate.

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Sesame Street has changed since I was a kid. Of course, so has America!

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First Routledge, now Oxford!

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Dostoevsky's manuscript for The Brothers Karamazov. Someone didn't pay enough attention to handwriting in lower school!

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Karl Marx was born on this day 206 years ago. He is the subject of much myth-making and distortion, by those who have supposedly read him and those who haven't. Coming this fall, an accessible philosophical introduction:

Marx (The Routledge Philosophers)

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On the value of learning philosophy:

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A genealogy of Foucault:

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@SandisBertaitis It requires that you not lose your job because of your views on scholarly questions.

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Schopenhauer's pessimism made (way too) simple:

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If "nihilism" means denial of all objective values, then N. is a nihilist. If "nihilism" means being unable to value in the absence of a metaphysical sanction for value, then N. is not a nihilist. If "nihilism" means judging life not worth living, then N. is not a nihilist.

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Nietzsche's not nihilistic.

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In Memoriam: Joseph Raz (1939-2022)

In Memoriam: Joseph Raz (1939-2022) (Updated)

MOVING TO FRONT--ORIGINALLY POSTED MAY 2, MANY NEW UPDATES After H.L.A. Hart (his teacher), Raz was the most important figure in Anglophone legal philosophy, and also made significant contributions...

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Clever lecture title, via Huw Price:

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This pretty much sums up the Benighted States of America in the age of COVID:

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Incelephant

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Saw this on FB:

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Open letter from UK philosophers in support of academic freedom for Prof. Kathleen Stock and at the University of Sussex...

Open letter from UK philosophers in support of academic freedom for Prof. Kathleen Stock and at the...

Here. Additional UK-based philosophers (faculty and graduate students) are invited to sign. A distinguished group of signatories already, including Crispin Wright, Timothy Williamson, David Papineau,...

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On the mind of many professors right now:

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National literatures made simple:

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Oy veh, just heard from another well-known senior philosopher (who has published a lot with Oxford U Press), who also had a manuscript (not related to transgender issues) rejected on grounds of "sensitivity." I hope to have permission to share more soon. But this is alarming!

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Joseph Raz's final wishes

Joseph's longtime partner, Penelope Bulloch, kindly gave permission to share this message she had sent to various friends (earlier memorial notice): Joseph did not want a funeral. He left his body to...

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@ProfWootton That's ridiculous, he is openly asserting that he will commit scholarly malpractice!

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Problem of Evil, driving edition:

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The lesser-known sequel:

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Are there really still people who care what Derrida’s conception of politics was?

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‘Derrida’s conception of politics was quite old-fashioned, perhaps pre-Kantian: for him, politics was concerned not with designing a new society but with responding to random conflicts thrown up by the ordinary chaos of social existence.’ Jonathan Rée:

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How to write a dissertation and get your PhD:

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JFC, he didn’t endorse his son, he endorsed his VP, who was elected with him. Some folks try too hard to appear “radical”

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Anointing a successor is more akin to monarchy

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Translation failure for "jerk chicken"?

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Dangerous Halloween candy, philosophy edition:

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My review of a recent book Law is a Moral Practice

Law is a Moral Practice

In the first chapter of his often entertaining but rather exasperating book, Scott Hershovitz gives two different formulations of its central thesis tha...

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Typical day at the tautology store!

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Listen to your Mom!

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Happy American Thanksgiving!

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No 13 year old can understand Nietzsche. For those not in the know, Florence is the Twitter Kantian (think village atheist). That explains all

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Nietzsche is proof that you can become a canonical philosopher by marketing yourself to 13 year olds

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Peak Princeton philosophy, 1979: Back: G Harman, JW Smith, M Frede, G Pitcher, R Jeffrey, R Rorty; Middle: M. Wilson, W Kaufmann, Steph. Lewis, DK Lewis, J Burgess, T Nagel; Front: R Geuss, S Kripke, P Benacerraf, N. Salmon, A. Szathmary, T Scanlon, C Normore.

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"Forgive and forget" is not their approach; Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins), a distinguished Spinoza scholar gave permission to share this:

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The Marx book exists! I got my actual copies today, and a professor at Northwestern told me he got his "pre-ordered" copy today.

Marx (The Routledge Philosophers)

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Signs of the impending cat revolution:

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Rare photo of Dumbo the Elephant in the wild, with his parents:

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When the book appeared in 1886, Nietzsche had to pay to publish it himself...

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This is a very good paper. The Uncertain Judge @SSRN

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Aristotle made simple

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Dorothy Parker's review of "Atlas Shrugged":

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Duck's best friend too it turns out!

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In honor of Nietzsche-hating @morallawwithin please post your favorite Nietzsche insults about Kant, "that catasrophic spider" (to get us going).

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Note to students: do not try this, the odds that you are the next Wittgenstein are infinitesimal.

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When Wittgenstein submitted an essay for his BA degree at Cambridge, he did not include a preface and notes indicating the sources that he had used. When asked to supply these, he wrote this letter to G.E. Moore. (Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-1951, 76.)

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"Philosophy & Public Affairs," aka, "The Journal of Rawls Worship":

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I’ve read a lot of things by the charlatan Derrida over the years, but I haven’t read that essay! What a disgrace to the Humanities that he was ever taken seriously anywhere.

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I read Derrida’s essay on nuclear war, the stupidest fucking essay ever written, in which he describes nuclear holocaust as “fabulously textual.”

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"France is bacon": the mystery solved!

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Political and economic positions explained with "Amazon"

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In Memoriam: Harry G. Frankfurt (1929-2023)

Professor Frankfurt, who was emeritus at Princeton University, also taught for many years at Yale University and, before that, at Rockefeller University and Ohio State University. Early in his...

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There is no positivist case for originalism, it’s unfortunate any time is being wasted on this confusion.

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The safety of literally no one depends on the university answering this question. What an embarrassment this guy is.

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To the President of @Columbia University: To accurately assess our safety on campus, your Jewish and Israeli faculty deserve to know: Does Columbia University acknowledge that Hamas is a terrorist organization responsible for the October 7 massacre? Sincerely, Shai Davidai

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These kids win Halloween:

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I will share an anecdote: I was recently asked to referee a paper by a top law review (not Chicago); I explained why the paper was "sophomoric" and "not publishable"; the journal accepted it nonetheless. The author is a professor at that school. Welcome to American law reviews!

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I guess this counts as an endorsement of the book:

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This made me laugh pretty hard

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French and Italian legal realism gave us the idea that when it comes to the highest "court," well, "anything goes" and the only pushback will come from politics. We're there.

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Nearly 200 years ago David Strauss exposed the entire New Testament as a fraud. The non-existence of God has been clear for almost as long. Educated people know these things. Reactionary hacks on the other hand…

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The Bible doesn’t appear in most high school and college curricula because it’s prestige has been utterly destroyed and most educated people are embarrassed to be associated with it.

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Dunning-Kruger tweet of the day. (As an aside, the most important language for philosophy in each era tends to be the language of the dominant imperial power.)

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But they've still got work to do...

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Dominic Berry (LSE) once again threatening gender critical feminists...

Dominic Berry (LSE) once again threatening gender critical feminists

When we last heard from Dr. Berry, he was busy severing Twitter ties (seriously) with anyone who was merely "following" Nigel Warburton on Twitter--Warburton's "thought crime" had been including...

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Commas matter.

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In Memoriam: Frederick Schauer (1946-2024)

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Typical audience at a philosophy talk:

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Practical solutions to parenting problems:

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The birth of philosophy:

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In Memoriam: Alvin I. Goldman (1938-2024)

MOVING TO FRONT FROM AUGUST 9--UPDATED For a long time the most important and influential epistemologist in the Anglophone world, Professor Goldman was emeritus at Rutgers University, New Brunswick,...

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Chuck Berry died six years ago yesterday. I'd never seen this before, which is kind of neat:

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Spinoza made simple

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I'm not sure this is accurate, but...

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Once upon a time a guy like this could be a major newspaper columnist even in America:

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You couldn’t make this one up.

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Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”

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Dunning-Kruger Effect, Covid edition:

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Socrates meets his match!

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In Memoriam: Charles D. Parsons (1933-2024)

Professor Parsons, who was emeritus at Harvard, died yesterday evening. He taught for many years at Columbia University, before returning to Harvard (where he had taken his Ph.D.) in 1989, and where...

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My God, this is embarrassingly stupid. I’ve had excellent Hillsdale graduates here at Chicago, why debase the “brand” with juvenile bullshit like this?

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When highway signs editorialize:

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Anyone who has tried to get an elderly parent to give up driving knows this spiel. It's meaningless, one has to look at the evidence.

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“I would not be running again if I didn’t believe with all my heart and soul I can do this job.” What Biden believes is irrelevant, a case study in self-serving biases.

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