Someone who has different views about the subject matter of a particular science is simply not engaged in that particular field. And although there is methodological debate during scientific revolutio… more →
Insane AngelsColin Koopman wrote 2 weeks ago: The three most important philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century were Bernard Willi … more →
axinia wrote 2 weeks ago: The Rose of the World by Daniel Andreev is a unique and poetic cosmological treatise passionately wr … more →
timsmartt wrote 1 month ago: Someone who has different views about the subject matter of a particular science is simply not engag … more →
timsmartt wrote 1 month ago: If you have asked me at some stage during this year what I am researching for my M.Phil thesis, chan … more →
timsmartt wrote 1 month ago: Philosophy has no history, one might say, any more than human nature does, or better, any more than … more →
tnm8 wrote 1 month ago: Taboo Argument: An argument that has certain ‘design flaws’ — and yet ‘gets … more →
tnm8 wrote 1 month ago: Taboo Argument: An argument that has certain ‘design flaws’ — and yet ‘gets … more →
timsmartt wrote 1 month ago: A friend recently introduced me to an article by the Australian philosopher Bruce Langtry. Langtry i … more →
timsmartt wrote 2 months ago: One of the reasons for my starting this blog was to try to think through what the best relationship … more →
jujudd wrote 2 months ago: The Problem at Hand — Beginning in the 19th century the position began to take shape that theo … more →
jmsytsma wrote 2 months ago: Antti Kauppinen has a long post (here or here) critiquing my recent paper with Edouard Machery, … more →
jmsytsma wrote 2 months ago: I have posted a draft of a new paper with Jonathan Livengood, Adam Feltz, and Edouard Machery on the … more →
timsmartt wrote 2 months ago: Nowadays, if a philosopher finds he cannot answer the philosophical question ‘What is time? … more →
malachain wrote 2 months ago: Jonathan Weinberg (see the thread immediately below) was curious about what metaphilosophy I had bee … more →
timsmartt wrote 2 months ago: Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are ha … more →
malachain wrote 2 months ago: One candidate suggestion has been that philosophers have an expertise that can be shown through a ca … more →
jujudd wrote 2 months ago: Fixing Conceptual Mechanisms — In my first post I gave an overview of the traditional subject … more →
jujudd wrote 3 months ago: Busy Today… — I’m working through a couple of longer posts in my head, but in the meantime I t … more →
jujudd wrote 3 months ago: What is philosophy? — A very good question, and the central concern of a branch of thought ca … more →