Nassim Taleb talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his recent paper (with Constantine Sandis) on the morality and effectiveness of “skin in the game.” When decision makers have skin in the game–when they share in the costs and benefits of their decisions that might affect others–they are more likely to make prudent decisions than…
Things Fall Apart (an aside: the man best known for this phrase). CognitionCognitive neuroscienceconsciousnessethicsmetaphysicsNatural selectionPhilip KitcherPhilosophy of mindPhilosophy of scienceReligionthomas nagelvalue
It’s been some 25 years since my chum Geoff Thomas’ book was published. It holds the unusual distinction of being one of the very few Phds to be recommended to the OUP committee to publish as a book and it stands the test of time. The recommendation came from none other than Tony Quinton. Examining Thomas…
H/T to a kindred spirit “Infrequent literary reflections by an analytic philosopher” for bringing the slowly but surely growing secondary literature to my attention. Since it was through Kafka that my latent philosophical impulse was first generated, I’ve always wanted to write a piece on some aspect of his work. I have however been granted…
Here’s a plug for the aforementioned title notable, to me at least because my chum, inspiration, and occassional co-author, Christian Onof, has the following entries included: Geometry, Mathematics Transcendental Aesthetic Antinomy Categorical Imperative Method (either representation or a priori-a posteriori also made the final version) There are also two short papers on: Kant and Euler, and…
Philip Kitcher reviews Derek Parfit’s massive two-volume tome On What Matters. Derek Parfitethicspersonal identityPhilip KitcherReasons and Persons
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