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Back in 2020.Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics. The world's most popular philosophy ...

The last thread had 22 subnissions, so I thought it's time for a third thread. Instructions as before: In light of the growing number of these volumes, I am going to run a thread periodically in which ...

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 ...

Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics. The world's most popular philosophy blog, since ...

As Trump gears up for a war of aggression against Venezuela, it's only fitting that he has proposed calling the "Department of Defense" by its traditional name, "the Department of War," since that has ...

Thus lied the monster child the other day as a pretext for federalizing the National Guard and sending them to Chicago. (He'll get to Baltimore and San Francisco and New York before long.) Chicago isn ...

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 ...

Interesting data via Professor Schwitzgebel. I can imagine a couple of factors that have contributed to this trend, which seems to have gotten under way in the early part of the last decade. First, ...

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 ...