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 ...

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MOVING TO FRONT FROM AUGUST 6 (ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 13): see for what counts as a suitable submission below--no anonymous posts The last thread had 39 submissions, so I thought it's time for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOVING TO FRONT FROM AUGUST 6 (ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 13): see for what counts as a suitable submission below--no anonymous posts The last thread had 39 submissions, so I thought it's time for a ...

As an international applicant planning to apply in the coming years, I am concerned that there may be hidden policies or informal biases that disadvantage students from outside the U.S., particularly ...

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.

Not in the way Sinclair Lewis imagined, with Mussolini and Hitler as his paradigms, but in the way established in the 21st century by soft authoritarians, like Orban in Hungary and the Orwellian "Law ...

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 ...