The Holmesian "Bad Man" does not believe in legal (or constitutional) obligations: the only relevance of the law is that it affects the calculation of what is in his interest. If the probability of ...

MANY INFORMATIVE COMMENTS, MORE WELCOME, INCLUDING CORRECTIONS OR UPDATED STIPEND INFORMATION Previous discussions on the blog have noted the bad funding situation for PhD students in philosophy in ...

A friend who is reading my CUP Divine Hiddenness book manuscript suggested that readers today tend to skip right over introductions and to start reading in earnest with chapter one. He ...

ANOTHER UPDATE Story here. (A "go fund me" campaign for his legal fees has been started here.) "Fuck Landry" and "fuck Trump" are admirable sentiments, but it's not clear they ...

MOVING TO FRONT FROM JANUARY 7--UPDATED I was sorry to learn that Professor Wolff died last night. He was, of course, well-known to readers of this blog for his many trenchant insights into ...

Professor Bealer was well-known for his contributions to metaphysics and cognate areas. He taught at Reed College, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Texas at Austin, and, from ...

A leading figure in modal logic, Professor Segerberg was emeritus at Uppsala University, where he had held the Chair in Theoretical Philosophy from 1990 until his retirement in 2001. The Uppsala ...

That may be changing. Rioters who assaulted police officers at the Capitol have called for politicians who oppose Mr. Trump to be hanged, declared that “there will be blood,” and that “I plan on ...

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 ...

MOVING TO FRONT, ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 4 The full ad (and application links) are here.. Here's the basic description (please note the Workshop theme, it's essential that the candidate be able to ...