Some time ago, while I was advising a doctoral student regarding her search for an academic position, she showed me...

“False universality is what rubs the edges off all individual kinds of culture and takes as its basis the mediocre...

Philosophy, so taught Plato, means ‘love of wisdom’. And from the Buddha, to Kant and Einstein, there’s barely a thinker...

The American Philosophical Association (APA) is pleased to announce the establishment of the APA AI2050 Prizes, supported by Schmidt Sciences....

Shakespeare is widely recognized as one of the preeminent poets of the English language. Throughout his poetry, readers encounter both...

philosophybits: “Even if you’re going to live three thousand more years, or ten times that, remember: you cannot lose another...

philosophybits: “The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution...

In my last post, I introduced Julia Galef’s way of thinking about motivated reasoning, what she calls soldier mindset: people...