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Then that is evidence against the claim there was any influence, unless you include random effects of having read something.

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Seen on FB, perhaps will be seen in reality before long:

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This would be more plausible if Williams acknowledged more of his departures form Nietzsche than he does.

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This is very well written, and a fantastic exercise in charitable interpretation (or interpretivism, if you live by the verb of Ronnie). Only one query: it is really a 'juristocracy', if the people we are referring to do not really act as judges in any meaningful sense of the word?

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The rapier wit of members of the Strauss cult: Alex Priou edition (UPDATED) The Strauss cult may be mostly dead in political science departments, but it lives on on Twitter/X. Predictably, my saying out loud what philosophers always say about the “master” riled…

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In Memoriam: Susan Haack (1945-2026) Professor Haack was a well-known contributor to epistemology and philosophy of logic, who started her academic career at the University of Warwick, and spent the bulk of her career (since 1990) at …

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In Memoriam: Jurgen Habermas (1929-2026) Professor Habermas was the transitional figure between the original Frankfurt School of critical theory of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse and its modern manifestation as normative moral and politi…

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In Memoriam: Jurgen Habermas (1929-2026) Professor Habermas was the transitional figure between the original Frankfurt School of critical theory of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse and its modern manifestation as normative moral and politi…

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Brian Leiter, From a Realist Point of View

Look at what just came in the mail! “Incisive, fearless, and indispensable” — it’s true what I said in the blurb

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In Memoriam: Susan Haack (1945-2026) Professor Haack was a well-known contributor to epistemology and philosophy of logic, who started her academic career at the University of Warwick, and spent the bulk of her career (since 1990) at …

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I mostly knew Føllesdal's earlier work on modal and deontic logic (including a now-classic introduction to SDL with Hilpinen), and I was less acquainted with his work on Husserl (for which he is perhaps most famous). A top notch philosopher.

Sit ei terra levis.

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Morality is nothing but a story we tell ourselves <p><em>Moral identity is often treated as a hidden core of inner values, but philosopher <strong><span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="wh...

Discovered this via @brianleiter.bsky.social and boy is it good. A real breath of fresh air in a discipline filled with the most ridiculous and stipulative forms of moral philosophy.

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