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Challenging Philosophy: Richard Rorty, Bernard Williams, Michel Foucault

Colin Koopman wrote 2 weeks ago: The three most important philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century were Bernard Willi … more →

Tags: critical inquiry, Foucault, Rorty, Williams

The Rose of the World - my review11 comments

axinia wrote 2 weeks ago: The Rose of the World by Daniel Andreev is a unique and poetic cosmological treatise passionately wr … more →

Tags: Evolutionary Learning, Personal, Philosophy, spirituality, Thoughts, after 2012, daniel andreev, experience?, Golden Age

What is Philosophy? The Open Question3 comments

timsmartt wrote 1 month ago: Someone who has different views about the subject matter of a particular science is simply not engag … more →

Tags: Hans-Johann Glock

My Thesis Question or What I've Been Doing All Year6 comments

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 →

Tags: M.Phil Thesis, Myles Burnyeat, Plato, Politics, richard rorty, Sydney University

What I've Learned From Teaching Philosophy9 comments

timsmartt wrote 1 month ago: Philosophy has no history, one might say, any more than human nature does, or better, any more than … more →

Tags: Arthur Danto, Plato, Sydney University

Taboo Arguments - Part One

tnm8 wrote 1 month ago: Taboo Argument: An argument that has certain ‘design flaws’ — and yet ‘gets … more →

Tags: metaphysics, Philosophy of Language

Taboo Arguments - Part One

tnm8 wrote 1 month ago: Taboo Argument: An argument that has certain ‘design flaws’ — and yet ‘gets … more →

Tags: metaphysics, Philosophy of Language

Dogmatism, Anathema Theories, and the 'Handmaiden of Theology'7 comments

timsmartt wrote 1 month ago: A friend recently introduced me to an article by the Australian philosopher Bruce Langtry. Langtry i … more →

Tags: paul, New Testament, Theology, dogmatism, John Stuart Mill, Bruce Langtry, The Briefing

Johannine Philosophy: John Calvin and John Paul II on the Purpose of Philosophy4 comments

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 →

Tags: Catholicism, John Calvin, John Paul II, Theology

Look here. You believe something other than what you believe. See?

jujudd wrote 2 months ago: The Problem at Hand — Beginning in the 19th century the position began to take shape that theo … more →

Tags: ethics, Arguemntation, Ethical Theory, Meta-ethics, Meta-Philosophy, Moral Theory, Morality, Morals, Philosophy

Kauppinen on "Two Conceptions"

jmsytsma wrote 2 months ago: Antti Kauppinen has a long post (here or here) critiquing my recent paper with Edouard Machery, … more →

Tags: Experiments, language

Philosophical Temperament

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 →

Tags: Experiments, Papers

On Living Your Philosophy9 comments

timsmartt wrote 2 months ago: Nowadays, if a philosopher finds he cannot answer the philosophical question ‘What is time? … more →

Tags: Augustine, analytic philosophy, Greek Philosophy, John Calvin, Plato, Myles Burnyeat, Paul Helm, Presbyterian Theological Centre, Stoicism

What it must mean to be a philosopher

malachain wrote 2 months ago: Jonathan Weinberg (see the thread immediately below) was curious about what metaphilosophy I had bee … more →

We Don't Solve Philosophical Problems, We Just Get Over Them.5 comments

timsmartt wrote 2 months ago: Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are ha … more →

Tags: analytic philosophy, Theology, Pragmatism, John Dewey

Whither philosophical expertise?

malachain wrote 2 months ago: One candidate suggestion has been that philosophers have an expertise that can be shown through a ca … more →

Would you hand me that sprocket & a materialist dialectic?

jujudd wrote 2 months ago: Fixing Conceptual Mechanisms — In my first post I gave an overview of the traditional subject … more →

The Eternal Philosophical Grudge Match

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 →

Tags: metaphysics, Idealism, Materialism, Philosophy

The "Basic" Question

jujudd wrote 3 months ago: What is philosophy? —  A very good question, and the central concern of a branch of thought ca … more →

Tags: Philosophy, metaphysics, Epistemology, ethics


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