Some of the most talented professional bloggers in the U.S. have backgrounds in philosophy. Is this just a coincidence or is there a causal relationship between philosophical training and the demands of professional blogging? In addition to learning about the philosophical backgrounds and abiding interests of three of the most prominent bloggers in the U.S.,…
It’s been ten years since the release of David Wiggins’ Sameness and Substance Renewed. I notice that it has gone into a second edition, which is good news. This book must rate as one of my favourite works and I believe is somewhat neglected (I originally read S&S and was impressed that reading S&SR didn’t…
Here’s a great post in the New York Times (via my chum David Livingstone Smith) on one of the most influential philosophers of recent times within the analytic tradition – the one and only Saul Kripke. My favourite Kripke quote: “It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably…
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A surprisingly aged Kripke lecturing (84 minutes) and on the occasion of his 65th birthday: The First Person (83 minutes) with Q & A (13 minutes)
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