5 天之前 · 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 books for which authors have paid for permanet open access (see, e.g., OUP's terms). In light of the growing number of these volumes, I am going to run a thread periodically in which I invite authors ...

2025年1月30日 · The monster child's first day with political power. Of all the stupid and venal things he did--declaring a fake "national emergency" at the Southern border, withdrawing from the Paris Climate accords, withdrawing from the World Health Organization--the most ominous was pardoning all those convicted for participation in the...

4 天之前 · 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 books for which authors have paid for permanet open access (see, e.g., OUP's terms). In light of the growing number of these volumes, I am going to run a thread periodically in which I invite authors ...

2023年10月17日 · Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics.

2024年12月16日 · Adolph Reed comments in the wake of the electoral disaster:. To the extent that the totality of politics, including among those who see themselves as the “left” or even advocates of a working-class agenda, has reduced to winning this election or preparing to win the next one, there’s no impetus to break with what passes for “sophisticated” political understanding that people like ...

The "undecided" or "waivering" voters have no idea what's going on and do not understand cause and effect. Consider this from the latest NYT polls showing an essential tie in the key Northern battleground states:. The polling results fit a recurring theme with voters in battleground states: Many tend to believe that Mr. Trump’s time in office helped people like them, and they worry that Ms ...

A soon-to-be PhD student writes: I am an incoming philosophy PhD student at a university in a major U.S. city. While I have been fortunate enough to receive funding and a stipend for the duration of my program, I find myself increasingly worried about getting by with rising inflation and costs of living — especially considering that the stipend is the same for all five years.

Reader Scott Newstok called my attention to this very interesting LRB review essay of John Guillory's latest attempt to look at the history and organization of literary studies as a field. A brief excerpt: For Guillory, the pivotal development in the whole story was the arrival of ‘criticism’ as the dominant approach in the 1920s and 1930s, whether in the form of I.A. Richards’s ...

2021年4月30日 · News and views about philosophy—both the subject and the academic profession—as well as other aspects of university life and political culture, including academic freedom, neoliberalism, identity politics, and Marxism.

2024年9月5日 · A new paper, slated for an issue of Midwest Studies in Philosophy on the topic of "Genealogy," edited by Yuval Avnur; the abstract:. Some philosophers associated with the post-Kantian Continental traditions in philosophy (for example, Marx and Nietzsche) think that the etiology of a belief can impugn the epistemic status of that belief, leading us, correctly, to be “suspicious” of it; let ...