The Holmesian "Bad Man" does not believe in legal (or constitutional) obligations: the only relevance of the law is that it affects the calculation of what is in his interest. If the probability of ...

MANY INFORMATIVE COMMENTS, MORE WELCOME, INCLUDING CORRECTIONS OR UPDATED STIPEND INFORMATION Previous discussions on the blog have noted the bad funding situation for PhD students in philosophy in ...

A friend who is reading my CUP Divine Hiddenness book manuscript suggested that readers today tend to skip right over introductions and to start reading in earnest with chapter one. He ...

ANOTHER UPDATE Story here. (A "go fund me" campaign for his legal fees has been started here.) "Fuck Landry" and "fuck Trump" are admirable sentiments, but it's not clear they ...

MOVING TO FRONT FROM JANUARY 23--MANY INFORMATIVE COMMENTS, MORE WELCOME, INCLUDING CORRECTIONS OR UPDATED STIPEND INFORMATION Previous discussions on the blog have noted the bad funding situation for ...

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MOVING TO FRONT FROM JANUARY 7--UPDATED I was sorry to learn that Professor Wolff died last night. He was, of course, well-known to readers of this blog for his many trenchant insights into ...

Professor Bealer was well-known for his contributions to metaphysics and cognate areas. He taught at Reed College, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Texas at Austin, and, from ...

That may be changing. Rioters who assaulted police officers at the Capitol have called for politicians who oppose Mr. Trump to be hanged, declared that “there will be blood,” and that “I plan on ...

I've been periodically announcing open access books, sometimes in the Cambridge Elements series, where books are available for free for a couple of weeks or a month upon publication, and sometimes ...