Philosophy, et cetera

I started this blog 18 years ago, as a second-year undergraduate philosophy major.  The first couple years were... very undergrad-y... but I...

Three new-ish blogs (from the past year or so) that I figure are worth highlighting: (1) Cold Takes  - Holden Karnofsky (of GiveWell and Ope...

It's been a year in the making, but  my article on procreative ethics is finally up at Aeon Magazine !  Big thanks to Helen Yetter-Chapp...

There's a cool paper by Thomas Kroedel on ' Dualist Mental Causation and the Exclusion Problem ', forthcoming in Nous .  The cen...

Brian Leiter compiled this interesting list for blogs.com , which includes a flattering mention of Philosophy, et cetera . Though I probabl...

Hear hear : Many people who first venture out into the blogosphere do so under the cover of pseudonymity, even if they later blog under thei...

I find philosophy blogging so useful, fun, and worthwhile that I'm surprised there aren't more academics (esp. grad students) doing...

A couple more questions of information architecture : What are blogs good for? And what is the ideal medium for philosophical discussion? ...

I previously wrote a very simple guide to starting a philosophy blog . But I figure it might also be helpful to collate some more advanced t...

I mentioned Sympoze ('Digg for philosophers') previously . You can now integrate the Sympoze ' vote button ' right into you...

I often find that interesting ideas arise in discussion with others. But this suggests a possible tension between three prima facie legitim...

A great thing about blogging is that you can get instant feedback on your ideas, and engage in interesting conversations and arguments with ...

It's curious how often people accuse each other of rationalizing, or holding a position "because they want to believe it" rat...

Commenting on Richard Brown's post , GNZ writes: I honestly am curious if anyone else besides Richard C could actually read all exchange...

Life (especially for bloggers) affords limitless opportunities to engage in disputes. Far, far too many to be able to pursue them all. So I ...

I've written before about the value of filtering out abusive or otherwise unconstructive comments for the sake of promoting reasoned di...

I've already had a couple of classmates ask about starting their own blog, which is an encouraging sign. (More philosophy blogs = more i...

There are a number of good, thoughtful liberal blogs out there. I'd say hilzoy's Obsidian Wings is far and away the best. There are...

[My worries about history requirements reminded me of this old draft from a couple of years ago that I never got around to publishing. Bett...

Take the following passage , written by a respected academic: Hillary Clinton suffers from being a Clinton, as well as having one of the mos...