Professor Pappas, who was emeritus at Ohio State University, where he spent most of his career, was well-known for his work in epistemology and on the philosophy of George Berkeley. There is an ...

H e knows it's about class warfare, against the class that actually matters ("the billionaires and their puppet politicans"). He also gives a good account of "distraction ideology" in the Marxian ...

(The following grew out of a discussion with two Chicago students doing an "independent study" in advanced general jurisprudence: 3L Courtney Cox and 2L Phil Smoke. They are not responsible for what ...

But it has long been distrusted by vaccine skeptics [i.e., morons], and Mr. Kennedy has been sharply critical, once calling Covid shots “the deadliest vaccine ever made.” In a video posted on social ...

Yingnan Zhao, the translator of my Naturalizing Jurisprudence (OUP, 2007) into Chinese (published this year), posed a series of questions about my work in legal philosophy, on Nietzsche (Nietzsche on ...

So with not quite 1,000 participants, and nearly 90,000 votes on comparisons cast, here are the top 25 (the score in parentheses reflects the odds of the journal prevailing in a comparison): 1.

636 votes in our latest poll, on the best "general" journals of philosophy (those that publish in multiple areas). The "top 20" are bolded--beyond that the results are even less meaningful I expect.

3. Kant loses to Plato by 411–328, loses to Aristotle by 454–295 4. Hume loses to Plato by 534–166, loses to Kant by 533–176 5. Descartes loses to Plato by 597–117, loses to Hume by 356–269 6.

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Nilanjan Das (Sanskrit philosophy, epistemology), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Cornell University, ...

FIRE organized a debate between myself and Prof Brian Soucek (UC Davis) on this topic. Here is a recording, for those interested: I found it constructive and illuminating; it made clear that a key ...