End Times archive

Here he discusses promising and impossibility, promising and difficulty, rationality, why promising to try is bad faith, why non-cognitivism won't help, why seeing the problem in terms of practical knowledge won't help either, why evidential constraints are the big challenge - but they don't help either, the importance of Kant's notion of freedom and Sartre's notion of bad faith, Strawson's 'participation stance', the rationality of commitment to difficult things, why attempts to understand ourselves from an objective scientific stance distorts, and why he is a domesticated existentialist. This goes far... Berislav Marušić Published on: Feb 18, 2017 @ 06:13

Here he discusses quantum mechanics, its metaphysical implications, underdetermination, why it might present a new kind of vagueness, why he's not an Everettian, whether the 3-D world is an illusion and what he thinks about pessimism about scientific theories. Vavoom... Peter Lewis Published on: Feb 11, 2017 @ 13:22

Here she discusses internalism and externalism, the extended mind thesis, the Twin Earth thesis, Descartes and dualism, intentionality, knowledge-wh ascriptions and knowledge that doesn't aim at the truth. Read on... Katalin Farkas Published on: Feb 4, 2017 @ 10:49

'Truth is definitely a circular concept. And it is essentially circular; there is no non-circular way of giving an extensionally adequate definition of truth. The circularity is not vicious, however, in any sense that implies incoherence or defect in the concept of truth. On the contrary, some of the functions truth serves require that the concept be essentially circular. ' Anil Gupta Published on: Jan 28, 2017 @ 12:44

'Brain research can make no contribution to traditional philosophical questions. These are conceptual, not empirical, and therefore no empirical discovery can shed light on the issues they involve.But even more specific, non-conceptual questions that can be asked by neuroscientists sometimes involve problematic conceptual assumptions which might undermine them. I think the search for a brain correlate of voluntary action is one such case.' Hanoch Ben-Yami Published on: Jan 22, 2017 @ 17:44

Here she discusses Darwin and Lamarck, whether cultural change is Lamarckian, about the role of philosophy in science, the role of separation and integration in discussing culture and evolution, memetics, human nature and essentialism, the so-called 'Interactionist consensus' and genetic determinism, Collingwood and causation, and the issues of being interdisciplinary in university departments. This one plays for keeps... Maria Kronfeldner Published on: Jan 14, 2017 @ 09:39

Here he discusses Kant's uninterested in knowledge of the empirical world, the Transcendental deduction, whether Kant was a naive realist, some issues of other minds, the role of testimony in this, the mental states of people in persistent vegetative states, and whether philosophy - and Kant - has anything to offer in the domain of studying the mind. Start off the new year with a leap into the funky depths... Anil Gomes Published on: Jan 7, 2017 @ 10:53

Here he discusses two elements of his work: Thomas Kuhn and the Philosophy of medicine. He talks about philosophy of science before Thomas Kuhn, why Kuhn revised his book, incommensurability, whether science is just a construction, whether Kuhn saw scientific progress interns of revolution and evolution, Kuhn's influence, philosophy of medicine, its two crises, why we need virtuous physicians, caring and competence as key virtues for medicine and why binary oppositions need not be oppositional. If anyone wonders why we need philosophy, read this ... James Marcum Published on: Dec 23, 2016 @ 11:21

Here he discusses issues of legal, ethical and political philosophy, loyalty, the ethics of criminal justice, over-criminalisation, the ethics of policing, whether criminal justice requires a different ethics from elsewhere, valuing life and why he has so many different philosophical interests. John Kleinig Published on: Dec 17, 2016 @ 10:05

Here she discusses modality, flying pigs, the metaphysics of modality, Kant and judgment, the distinction between logical and real modality, the relativity of necessity, whether laws of logic are laws of thought, the logocentric predicament, and issues arising from hyperreliable belief forming methods and why the a priori/a posteriori isn't slicing at the epistemological joints. Groovy... Jessica Leech Published on: Dec 3, 2016 @ 09:49

Here she discusses why the semantics of epistemic expressions is important, her probabilistic theory of epistemology, credences, linguistics and philosophy of language, approaches to theories of time, imprecise credences, time-slice epistemology and finally why Wittgenstein abandoned the Tractatus and why he needn't have. Elegant... Sarah Moss Published on: Nov 26, 2016 @ 08:57

Here he discusses whether ethics should be an ideology-free zone, the relationship of psychoanalysis and philosophy, the relationship between Freud and Aristotle, anti-psychiatry, Wittgenstein's ethical enterprise, Adolf Loos, Nietzsche, avoiding the phrase 'virtue ethics', Nietzsche and Aristotle, development psychology, about thinking about oneself, Cotard's syndrome, 'happenings outside one's moral self and the importance of literature for ethics. Winter's nearly here: take a dram of Glenmorangie and off you go... Edward Harcourt Published on: Nov 19, 2016 @ 08:26