Here it is, our regular Friday diet of suggested readings for the weekend: Fantastic beasts and how (and why) to rank them in order of implausibility. Is liberalism (both Right and Left) a tragedy? The Closing of the American Mind,… Read More ›
One of my occasional series here at Footnotes to Plato is devoted to accessible (or so I hope) versions of some of my technical papers. The idea is to provide a taste of academic scholarship in philosophy of science, but… Read More ›
Here it is, our regular Friday diet of suggested readings for the weekend: What to do when your favorite philosopher is a bigot. The father of virtual reality sees serious problems with Silicon Valley. Power causes damage to the brain…. Read More ›
Continuing our discussion of Kevin Laland’s Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony, on the evolution of culture, I am going to briefly cover “A tale of two fishes” (ch. 4) and “The roots of creativity” (ch. 5). Together with the chapters we have… Read More ›
Here it is, our regular Friday diet of suggested readings for the weekend: History, totally destroyed. Why philosophy is so important for proper science education. The Odyssey and “the Other.” The future of the Web looks grim, according to its… Read More ›
I spent the weekend in Ghent, Belgium, where I participated to an event called Night of the Freethinker. After giving my usual talk on Stoicism as secular philosophy (slides here), I took part in a debate on post-truth and the… Read More ›
Here it is, our regular Friday diet of suggested readings for the weekend: Which is more fundamental? Processes, or things? On the metaphysics of both. The trouble with scientists. What music would you like to hear on your deathbed? The… Read More ›
