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A Phil-for-an-ill Blog
- The Toxic Legacy of Machiavelli’s The Prince 2014-04-30“…if a Prince succeeds in establishing and maintaining his authority, the means will always be judged honourable and be approved by every one.” (Chapter XVIII) Founded on the above dubious moral axiom, which may be translated as, The end justifies the means (A), in the 16th century Niccolò Machiavelli formulates the classic dissertation on how […]Philip Jonkers
- Killing Iraqi Civilians, Like a Video Game – 2007 Baghdad Civil Massacre Perpetrated by Trigger Happy US Troops (Wikileaks) 2010-04-20Short Version Long Version Related Reading: Killing Baghdad civilians and Reuters journos from the air! Neo-Cons Defend Massacre Of Iraqi Journalists, Children Attack Video Reveals Why Pentagon Wanted To “Destroy” Wikileaks In early April Wikileaks released into the public domain specific unreleased footage documenting a tragic event that could be considered as a severe incrimination […]Philip Jonkers
- Dark Knight (2008) – Excusing the Rude & Stoic Strongman Crime Fighter 2010-03-24http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/ – What is Predictive Programming? – Alan Watt – Predictive Programming; Theory and Practice – Vyzygoth Interviews Phillip and Paul Collins – Invoking the Beyond (Predictive Programming) A decent synopsis can be read on the corresponding Wikipedia page. Police State/Martial Law Scenery Let’s start with the police state scenery shown in the movie: Not […]Philip Jonkers
- Bill Gates Admits Vaccines Are Used for Human Depopulationx 2010-03-01Bill Gates Admits Vaccines Are Used for Human Depopulation In the video above are two short excerpts from a recently filmed TED presentation (Feb 2010) by none other than Bill “Microsoft” Gates. At the heart of Gates’ address lies the central Global Warming dogma, which dictates that Co2 emitted by human beings are the primary […]Philip Jonkers
- Robocop (1987) – Promoting the Militarization of Police 2010-02-11http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093870/ – What is Predictive Programming? – Alan Watt – Predictive Programming; Theory and Practice – Vyzygoth Interviews Phillip and Paul Collins – Invoking the Beyond (Predictive Programming) A decent synopsis can be read on the corresponding Wikipedia page. According to a Police magazine, “Police officers working in patrol vehicles, dressed in urban tactical gear […]Philip Jonkers
- Some questions regarding Mary K. Baxter’s “A Divine Revelation of Hell” 2010-01-14From divinerevelations.info we read: Mary Katherine Baxter was chosen by God to let the world know of the REALITY of Hell. Jesus Christ appeared to Mary Baxter on 40 consecutive nights and took Mary on a tour of Hell and Heaven. She walked, with Jesus, through the horrors of Hell and talked with many people. […]Philip Jonkers
- Commentary to the “What is Ego?” Video 2010-01-13What is Ego? (Andrew Cohen) Self-confidence can only be regarded as an attribute of the ego if the ego uses it to put other people down and tries to feel better than other people. This particular manifestation of self-confidence is called pride. On the other hand, if self-confidence is used to humbly tow other people […]Philip Jonkers
- Is it “Love vs Hate” or “Love vs Fear”? 2009-12-16In this short blog I examine the question which is a more fundamental antagonist of love: fear or hate. Hate is a strong aversive emotion connected to the subject or object of hate. The strength of hate derives from a former affection or love for that subject or object. In other words, what is hated […]Philip Jonkers
- The Downside of Talking People Down 2009-12-16There’s a risk involved in talking people down or acts of depreciation in general. If you speak negative about a certain person you’ll likely generate feelings of guilt towards that person, although the strength of these feelings depends on whether one believes that person deserves it or not. If there’s no intention of reconciliation, upon […]Philip Jonkers
- When Does Psychopathy Flourish? (Musings on Psychopathy II) 2009-12-03“Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.” R.D. Laing What is a psychopath? Etymology: Psychopath psyche 1647, “animating spirit,” from L. psyche, from Gk. psykhe “the soul, mind, spirit, breath, life, the invisible animating principle or entity which occupies and directs the physical body” (personified as Psykhe, the lover of Eros), akin […]Philip Jonkers
Alexander Pruss's Blog
- Punishment, criticism and authority 2021-04-09It is always unjust to punish without the right kind of authority over those that one punishes. Sometimes that authority may be given to us by them (as in the case of a University’s authority over adult students, or maybe even in the case of mutual authority in friendship) and sometimes it may come from […]
- What does it mean for persons to have infinite value? 2021-04-07It is intuitive to say that persons have infinite value, and recently Rasmussen and Bailey have given some cool arguments for this thesis. But what does it mean to say that humans have infinite value? If we think of values as something very much like numbers, then I guess it just means that humans have […]
- Non-propositional representations 2021-04-07I used to think that it’s quite possible that all our mental representations of the world are propositional in nature. To do that, I had to have a broad notion of proposition, much broader than what we normally consider to be linguistically expressible. Thus, I was quite happy with saying that Picasso’s Guernica expresses a […]
- Quasi-divinization and love 2021-04-06When we deeply love someone, we are apt to raise them to a quasi-divine status in our hearts. If naturalism is right, this is misguided, for the evolved clouds of particles that are the people we love do not in fact have any quasi-divine status. If theism is right, then this quasi-divinization could well be […]
- Best estimates and credences 2021-04-05Some people think that expected utilities determine credences and some thing that credences determine expected utilities. I think neither is the case, and want to sketch a bit of a third view. Let’s say that I observe people playing a slot machine. After each game, I make a tickmark on a piece of paper, and […]
- Going against currently expected utilities 2021-04-01Today I am making an important decision between A and B. The expected utilities of A and B depend on a large collection of empirical propositions p1, ..., pn. Yesterday, I spent a long time investigating the truth values of these empirical propositions and I calculated the expected utility of A to be much higher than that […]
- Complicity, Fetal Tissue and Vaccines 2021-03-31I just got permission from the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly to post my 2006 paper on fetal tissue and vaccines. It is here.
- Vaccines and cell-lines descended from tissue derived from abortion 2021-03-30A number of Catholic authorities have made a moral distinction between the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, on the one hand, and the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, on the other, with respect to the involvement of cells that descend (after many generations) from an aborted fetus (e.g., see here and here). The difference appears […]
- The pace of reception of goods 2021-03-29Suppose I know that from now on for an infinite number of years, I will be offered an annual game. A die will be rolled, I will be asked to guess whether the die will show six, and if I guess right, I will get a slice of delicious chocolate cake (one of my favorite […]
- Credences and decision-theoretic behavior 2021-03-26Let p be the proposition that among the last six coin tosses worldwide that proceeded my typing the period at the end of this sentence, there were exactly two heads tosses. The probability of p is 6!/(26⋅2!⋅4!) = 15/64. Now that I know that, what is my credence in p? Is it 15/64? I don’t think so. […]
- Doing and refraining, and proportionality 2021-03-24In my previous post, I suggested that proportionality considerations in Double Effect work differently for positive actions (doings) than for negative ones (refrainings). One thing that is now striking me is that there is an interesting asymmetry with respect to relational features that is brought out by thinking about pairs of trolley cases with different […]
- Doing, refraining and Double Effect 2021-03-22The Principle of Double Effect seems to imply that either there are real dilemmas—cases where an action is both forbidden and required—even for agents who have always been virtuous and well-informed, or else there is a morally significant distinction between doing and refraining. Here is the argument. Consider two cases. In both cases, you know […]
- More dwindling of the prospects for an accuracy-based argument for probabilism in infinite cases 2021-03-19Let P be the set of countably additive probabilities on a countable set Ω. A strictly proper accuracy scoring rule on some set of credences C that includes P is a function s from C to [ − ∞, M]Ω for some finite M such that Eps(p)>Eps(q) for any p ∈ P and any q ∈ C: i.e., from the point of […]
- A necessary truth that explains a contingent one 2021-03-19Van Inwagen’s famous argument against the Principle of Sufficient Reason rests on the principle: A necessary truth cannot explain a contingent one. For a discussion of the argument, see here. I just found a nice little counterexample to (1). Consider the contingent proposition, p, that it is not the case that my next ten tosses […]
- Scoring rules for finitely additive probabilities on an infinite space 2021-03-19Michael Nielsen has drawn my attention to the interesting question of scoring rules for forecasts on an infinite sample space Ω. Suppose that the forecasts are finitely additive probabilities on Ω, and that a scoring rule assigns an inaccuracy score s(p) to every finitely additive probability p on Ω (and maybe also to some or […]
- Valuations and credences 2021-03-18One picture of credences is that they are derived from agents’ valuations of wagers (i.e., previsions) as follows: the agent’s credence in a proposition p is equal to the agent’s valuation of a gamble that pays one unit if p is true and 0 units if p false. While this may give the right answer […]
- Presumption of legal permissibility 2021-03-16A standard principle in the interpretation of Catholic canon law is the principle that restrictive laws are understood narrowly and permissive ones broadly: i.e., in case of ambiguity, we err on the side of freedom. I’ve wondered if this presumption in favor of freedom is just a principle internal to Catholic canon law or if […]
- Abortion, contraception and Christian tradition 2021-03-15It is traditional Christian teaching, as far back as we can trace it, that: Abortion is always wrong. Nonetheless, historically many Christian theologians, such as Thomas Aquinas, accepted the best science and philosophy of the day (Aristotle!) which held that: Human existence starts about a month and a half after conception. Our science no longer […]
- Strict propriety of credential scoring rules 2021-03-08An (inaccuracy) scoring rule measures how far a probabilistic forecast lies from the truth. Thus, it assigns to each forecast p a score s(p) which is a [0, ∞]-valued random variable varying over the probability space Ω that measures distance from truth. Let’s work with finite probability spaces and assume all the forecasts are consistent probability […]
- Harm Principle 2021-03-05Consider this Harm Principle: Without a relevant connection to actual, intended or risked harm, there is no wrongdoing. Now suppose Carl tortures Bob because he has justified practical certainty that this torture will lead Bob to abandon beliefs that Carl takes to be heretical and thereby cause him to avoid the pains of hell. (How […]
Bhagwad Gita Blog
- Whole World exists in God 2020-08-24राम वही जो रमता सकल जहान Above Hindi line meaning is that "God is omnipresent and is in every atom of this Universe". But how God is there everywhere in the Universe?Meaning of omnipresent is that one who is present everywhere. God is one who in it's un-manifest, unseen, subtle aspect is always... [[ This is a content […]
- Bhagwad Gita can Change Your Life Completely 2020-05-30Reading Bhagwad Gita can Change Your Life completely. If Bhagwad Gita becomes a part & parcel of your life then it shall totally transform your life. It not only shall guide you through your life journey but shall also shape the way you live your life. If you have been reading the Bhagwad Gita,... [[ This […]
- MahaMantra - Hare Rama Hare Krishna Chant, Kirtan 2020-05-30MahaMantra - Hare Rama Hare Krishna Chant, Kirtan Hare Rama Hare Krishna is a beautiful Lord Rama & Lord Krishna Prayer. Listening to it gives peace of mind. Lord Rama & Lord Krishna are Hindu Gods incarnate & are the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Jai Sri Rama, Jai Sri Krishna Jai... [[ This is a […]
- राधे तेरे चरणों में 2020-05-30राधे तेरे चरणों में Its a beautiful chant for Sri Radha. It is a powerful Mantra. राधे तेरे चरणों में is Divine Music. Daily chanting or Listening to it gives peace of mind & Love of God. Goddess Sri Radha Rani is most dear to Lord Krishna even more than His wives. It was because, […]
- Quotes from Bhagwat Gita on Soul आत्मा पर भगवत गीता के उद्धरण (Quotes) 2020-05-17Here are some of the Quotes from Bhagwat Gita on Soul. Description of Soul is done beautifully by Lord Krishna in Chapter 2 of Bhagwat Gita. Here below read that illustration in detail. नीचे भागवद गीता के कुछ आत्मा पर प्रसिद्ध उद्धरण (Quotes) हैं : "na tv-evaham jatu nasam na tvam neme... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and […]
- People who do Bad Karmas are Punished surely by the God at one time or the another 2018-09-17Sometimes we feel that those people who do Good Karmas are not rewarded & those who do Bad Karmas are not Punished by God. But it is not so. Domain of God runs for Many lives & it is not that a person is not punished by God for his bad Karmas. So here are […]
- Beautiful Mobile App for Ekadashi Vrats 2018-09-16One of the Young Creator Mr. Raghav Sharma has developed a Beautiful Mobile App for Ekadashi Vrats to be performed by Hindus all across the world. This App is very useful for the people who are interested in regular Ekadashi Fasts. The links for the said App can be found below & people... [[ This is […]
- Greatness of Chapter Eighteen of Bhagwat Gita 2018-04-08Here below is explained the Greatness of Chapter Eighteen of Bhagwat Gita. Read the story below to see, how all the sinful reactions are destroyed by just reading the Chapter 18 of the Bhagwat Gita. "Lord Siva said; “My dear Parvati, Now, listen to the glories of the Eighteenth Chapter of Srimad... [[ This is […]
- कर्मणये वाधिकारस्ते मां फलेषु कदाचन - Meaning 2018-04-01"कर्मणये वाधिकारस्ते मां फलेषु कदाचन । मां कर्मफलहेतुर्भू: मांते संङगोस्त्वकर्मणि" ।। (Bhagwat Gita: Chapter Two verse 47) "श्री कृष्ण भगवान ने अर्जुन से कहा: आप को अपने निर्धारित कर्तव्य का पालन करने का अधिकार है, लेकिन आप कभी कर्म फल की इच्छा से कर्म मत करो (कर्म फल देने का अधिकार सिर्फ ईश्वर... [[ This […]
- Greatness of Chapter Seventeen of Bhagwat Gita 2018-04-01Here below is explained the Greatness of Chapter Seventeen of Bhagwat Gita. Read the story below to see, how all the sinful reactions are destroyed by just reading the Chapter 17 of the Bhagwat Gita. “Lord Siva said, “My dear Parvati, Now, kindly hear the nectarian glories of the Seventeenth... [[ This is a content […]
- Greatness of Chapter Sixteen of Bhagwat Gita 2018-03-25Here below is explained the Greatness of Chapter Sixteen of Bhagwat Gita. Read the story below to see, how all the sinful reactions are destroyed by just reading the Chapter 16 of the Bhagwat Gita. “Lord Siva said, “My dear Parvati, I will now tell you the glories of the Sixteenth Chapter of... [[ This […]
- Greatness of Chapter Fifteen of Bhagwat Gita 2018-03-18Here below is explained the Greatness of Chapter Fifteen of Bhagwat Gita. Read the story below to see, how all the sinful reactions are destroyed by just reading the Chapter 15 of the Bhagwat Gita. “Lord Siva said, “My dear Parvati, now I will tell you the glories of the Fifteenth Chapter of the... [[ […]
- See, how Sins are destroyed by reading Chapter Four of Bhagwat Gita 2018-03-12Here below are explained the Virtues of Chapter Four of Bhagwat Gita. Read the story below to see, how Sins are destroyed by reading Chapter Four of Bhagwat Gita. “Once there was a saint named Bharat, who lived on the bank of the Ganges. There the devoted Bharat daily recited the fourth chapter... [[ This […]
- Greatness of Chapter Twelve of Bhagwat Gita 2018-03-12Here below is explained the Greatness of Chapter Twelve of Bhagwat Gita. Read the story below to see, how all the sinful reactions are destroyed by just reading the Chapter 12 of the Bhagwat Gita. “Lord Siva said, “I will recite the wonderful glories of the Twelfth Chapter of Srimad Bhagwat-Gita... [[ This is a […]
- Greatness of Chapter Thirteen of Bhagwat Gita 2018-03-12Here below is explained the Greatness of Chapter Thirteen of Bhagwat Gita. Read the story below to see, how all the sinful reactions are destroyed by just reading the Chapter 13 of the Bhagwat Gita. “Lord Siva said, “Oh Parvati, please hear the unlimited glories of the Thirteenth Chapter of the... [[ This is a […]
- Greatness of Chapter Fourteen of Bhagwat Gita 2018-03-12Here below is explained the Greatness of Chapter Fourteen of Bhagwat Gita. Read the story below to see, how all the sinful reactions are destroyed by just reading the Chapter 14 of the Bhagwat Gita. “Lord Siva said “Oh, Parvati kindly hear from Me the glories of the Fourteenth Chapter of the... [[ This is […]
- कभी जीवन में घमंड मत करना 2018-03-05महाभारत के युद्ध में अर्जुन और कर्ण के बीच घमासान चल रहा था । अर्जुन का तीर लगने पे कर्ण का रथ 25-30 हाथ पीछे खिसक जाता , और कर्ण के तीर से अर्जुन का रथ सिर्फ 2-3 हाथ । लेकिन श्री कृष्ण थे की कर्ण के वार की तारीफ़ किये जाते, अर्जुन की तारीफ़ […]
- Greatness of Chapter Eleven of Bhagwat Gita 2017-08-06Here below is explained the Greatness of Chapter Eleven of Bhagwat Gita. Read the story below to see, how all the sinful reactions are destroyed by just reading the Chapter 11 of the Bhagwat Gita. “In the olden times, there was a big city of the name Megankara on the banks of the Pranita river […]
- Greatness of Chapter Nine of Bhagwat Gita 2017-07-31Here below is explained the Greatness of Chapter Nine of Bhagwat Gita. Read the story below to see, how all the sinful reactions are destroyed by just reading the Chapter 9 of the Bhagwat Gita. “In the olden times, there was a town of the name Mahismati on the bank of the Narmada River, where... […]
- Greatness of Chapter Ten of Bhagwat Gita 2017-07-31Here below is explained the Greatness of Chapter Ten of Bhagwat Gita. Read the story below to see, how all the sinful reactions are destroyed by just reading the Chapter 10 of the Bhagwat Gita. “In the olden times, there was a Brahmin of the name of Dhira-buddhi in Kashipuri, who was very dear to... […]
Bleeding Heart Libertarians
- The End 2020-06-01Back in 2011, a group of academic philosophers started a blog called “Bleeding Heart Libertarians.” The idea behind that blog was simple, but also somewhat vague in terms of its... The post The End appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Matt Zwolinski
- Anti-Competition as the Incel Mentality 2020-06-01Observe: Incel: “Stacy choose Chad over me. I have the right to retaliate by killing Stacy and/or Chad.” Michael Fett, a guy on Facebook, justifying Guitar Center being looted: “Guitar... The post Anti-Competition as the Incel Mentality appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Jason Brennan
- The AAAS Agrees with Magness and Me 2020-06-01New report on the state of the humanities: https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/media/document/2020-05/hds3_the_state_of_the_humanities_in_colleges_and_universities.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0lCu4KOkSq62KnkXdaOOaQtMBkxJN6affH61kgOctQZks7GsEJqzulHow It concurs with what Phil and I say in Cracks and our other published work: 1. Adjuncts are not replacing full-time... The post The AAAS Agrees with Magness and Me appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Jason Brennan
- An Excerpt from *When All Else Fails* 2020-05-30Here are the concluding paragraphs of When All Else Fails. Over the past eight chapters, we’ve examined a wide range of arguments which attempted to show that government agents enjoy... The post An Excerpt from *When All Else Fails* appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Jason Brennan
- Is It Time for Private Punishment? 2020-05-29When All Else Fails is about defensive actions, not punishment. If someone had justly and rightly shot the cops who murdered George Floyd, they would be trying to stop them... The post Is It Time for Private Punishment? appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Jason Brennan
- The Two Big News Cases and Philosophy 2020-05-27Minneapolis police officers killed George Floyd by crushing his neck with a knee while he lay prostrate, helpless, and handcuffed. This is precisely the kind of case When All Else... The post The Two Big News Cases and Philosophy appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Jason Brennan
- How Government Leaders Violated Their Epistemic Duties During the SARS-CoV-2 Crisis 2020-05-20Written with Eric Winsberg and Chris Surprenant, forthcoming in The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. Abstract: In spring 2020, in response to the COVID-19 crisis, world leaders imposed severe restrictions... The post How Government Leaders Violated Their Epistemic Duties During the SARS-CoV-2 Crisis appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Jason Brennan
- What Is Public Choice? 2020-05-14Here’s some silliness from Henry Farrell. Why is public choice specifically unhelpful here? Rather than starting from the many definitions of public choice offered by its enemies, I’ll begin with... The post What Is Public Choice? appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Jason Brennan
- Likeville Podcast about the Quarantine 2020-05-12Here. Eric Winsberg, Chris Surprenant, and I talk to John Faithful Hamer about the quarantine, precautionary principles, political incompetence, civil liberties, the problems with the data and models policy-makers relied... The post Likeville Podcast about the Quarantine appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Jason Brennan
- How Did the Great Recession Affect Academic Employment? 2020-05-12Here are the total number of people employed as full-time assistant professors in the United States over the past 20 years, according to the US Department of Education. The figure... The post How Did the Great Recession Affect Academic Employment? appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.Jason Brennan
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog
- If Tucker "you're not as white as me" Carlson survives this latest fiasco, it will be further proof America is doomed 2021-04-09Amazing that he'd go there.Brian Leiter
- The best thing about the late Prince Philip... 2021-04-09...was that he was a window into how the British ruling class really thinks. For that, he will be missed by me!Brian Leiter
- Another university kills philosophy and fires tenured faculty as well 2021-04-09Western Oregon University. What a disgrace.Brian Leiter
- New frontiers of Republican mischief: requiring faculty at state universities to reveal their political beliefs 2021-04-09I am hopeful a court will strike down these laws (one in Florida, one in Iowa) for the same reason courts have struck down forced disclosure of the membership lists of organizations, mostly famously, in a case involving an attempt...Brian Leiter
- Is it even lawful to consider "diversity" in hiring? 2021-04-09MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY--VERY INSTRUCTIVE DISCUSSION IN THE COMMENTS, MORE CONTRIBUTIONS WELCOME. In a discussion of the earlier poll, one junior faculty member asked: I was a bit surprised to see so many people admit to doing more than...Brian Leiter
- In Memoriam: J. Michael Dunn (1941-2021) 2021-04-09MOVING TO FRONT FROM APRIL 7--UPDATED I was sorry to learn on Facebook that Mike Dunn has passed away. He was emeritus at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he spent most of his career from 1969 onwards. He was best-known internationally...Brian Leiter
- Three philosophers win 2021 Guggenheim Fellowships 2021-04-08They are: R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford), Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern), and Roselyn Weiss (Lehigh).Brian Leiter
- More on Macquarie's bad behavior 2021-04-08MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY--IMPORTANT UPDATE Philosopher Alexander Morgan (Rice) kindly shared this message he sent to administrators at Macquarie University, regarding the evisceration of cognitive science and the "voluntary" [sic] redundancy of Professor Sutton. Professor Morgan wrote to the...Brian Leiter
- Update on Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2021-04-08Jc Beall (Notre Dame), the current editor, has shared the following statement with the Board, and kindly gave permission to share this more widely: Prof. Gary Gutting and Dr. Stacie Gutting created NDPR around 20 years ago. They ran the...Brian Leiter
- Richard Marshall interviews Alexander Klein (McMaster)... 2021-04-08...at 3:16 AM.Brian Leiter
- Academic freedom crisis at U of San Diego continues 2021-04-07Really unbelievable. (Earlier coverage, also the AFA statement. AFA is assisting with legal support.)Brian Leiter
- In Memoriam: Kai Nielsen (1926-2021) 2021-04-07Professor Nielsen wrote widely in social and political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of religion, and metaphilosophy over the course of his long career, which included teaching positions at Amherst College and New York University in the United States and, then, for...Brian Leiter
- Why philosophy needs mathematics and vice versa 2021-04-07Mark Wilson (Pittsburgh) discusses at Scientific Sense.Brian Leiter
- 2021 Lebowitz Prize awarded to Ned Block (NYU) and Ian Phillips (Johns Hopkins) 2021-04-06The APA announcement is here; from the announcement: Professors Block and Phillips’s topic for the 2021 Lebowitz Prize is “Perception, Consciousness and the Self.” The winners will present their work in February 2022 at the APA Central Division meeting in...Brian Leiter
- "Rawls on Justice" 2021-04-06David Runciman (Cambridge) discusses at the Talking Politics podcast.Brian Leiter
- Frontiers of open access 2021-04-06The University of California and Germany have both struck open access deals with, respectively, Elsevier and Springer. Are more such deals in the works?Brian Leiter
- Who doesn't use the Internet? 2021-04-06Almost everyone in the U.S. does, but age, poverty, lack of education, and living in rural areas are the best predictors of not using the Internet at all (and even then, the vast majority in each group do use it).Brian Leiter
- What the heck is going on in the Evanston, IL schools? 2021-04-06Evanston is a suburb just north of Chicago, where Northwestern University is located. This interview with a parent there makes the school district sound like a nuthouse, a place where Ibram Kendi isn't viewed as a slightly ridiculous "anti-racism" grifter,...Brian Leiter
- "Africana Marxism" 2021-04-05Philosopher Vanessa Wills (George Washington) discusses at the "History of Philosophy" podcast.Brian Leiter
- Graduate school applications way up this year, including in philosophy 2021-04-05IHE has a story, which includes some examples of philosophy departments with big increases. It's also been a very tough year for law school applicants, probably the most competitive in more than a decade.Brian Leiter
Logic Matters
- Slow progress … 2021-03-26There have been distractions. So it’s been painfully slow progress on various projects over the last few weeks. In particular, it has been very slow work trying to write the early (pre-category-theoretic, scene-setting) chapters I wanted to put together for the … Continue reading → The post Slow progress … appeared first on Logic Matters.Peter Smith
- The Meaning of Travel (again) 2021-03-25I wrote this a year ago: who would have guessed that twelve months on, the prospect of travel seems almost as remote as it did then … If you didn’t read Emily Thomas’s book when it came out, you missed … Continue reading → The post The Meaning of Travel (again) appeared first on Logic […]Peter Smith
- David Makinson: A historical question about mathematicians and logic 2021-03-12David Makinson raises a very interesting issue, originally in a comment on my recent post on Jonathan Barnes’s book. It seems a pity to leave his question buried there, where it is likely to be overlooked, so I’m making it … Continue reading → The post David Makinson: A historical question about mathematicians and logic […]Peter Smith
- More music for lockdown 4: the Doric Quartet play Mozart and Beethoven 2021-03-11There is another wonderful series of concerts being streamed from Wigmore Hall. I particularly enjoyed this from the very fine Doric Quartet, playing Mozart’s Quartet K590, the ‘Prussian’, and Beethoven’s first Razumovsky Quartet. The post More music for lockdown 4: the Doric Quartet play Mozart and Beethoven appeared first on Logic Matters.Peter Smith
- Another new paper by Kripke: The Collapse of the Hilbert Program 2021-03-11In case you missed it — as I did until Romina Padro pointed me to it — Saul Kripke published another new paper on arXiv last month, The Collapse of the Hilbert Program: A Variation on the Gödelian Theme. The post Another new paper by Kripke: The Collapse of the Hilbert Program appeared first on […]Peter Smith
- Procrastinating with Logicbites … 2021-03-03I’ve just been checking the February figures for downloads from Logic Matters and for sales of the print-on-demand versions of the Big Red Logic Books. The sales — modest! — of the physical books fluctuate quite a bit. But last … Continue reading → The post Procrastinating with Logicbites … appeared first on Logic Matters.Peter Smith
- New paper by Kripke (on mathematical incompleteness results in PA) 2021-03-03There is a new paper by Saul Kripke on “Mathematical Incompleteness Results in First-Order Peano Arithmetic: A Revisionist View of the Early History”, available here on arXiv. Thanks to David Auerbach for the heads-up. This blog gets a mention. I … Continue reading → The post New paper by Kripke (on mathematical incompleteness results in […]Peter Smith
- Logical Matters 2021-02-24How did I miss that the second volume of Jonathan Barnes’s papers on ancient philosophy goes by the title Logical Matters? A must read, surely, for Logic Matters! Better late than never, following a thread that started some days ago … Continue reading → The post Logical Matters appeared first on Logic Matters.Peter Smith
- More music for lockdown 3: two concerts from Ivana Gavrić 2021-02-18It’s been often remarked, how odd our experience of time is in lockdown. The days are long; the weeks disappear so quickly. It seems just a few days since I watched a hugely enjoyable concert by the painist Ivana Gavrić … Continue reading → The post More music for lockdown 3: two concerts from Ivana […]Peter Smith
- More logicbites 2021-02-18There are now 10 logicbites, very much intended for students. They introduce Chapters 1 to 10 of IFL, varying from one page to five, often quoting from other people’s textbooks (and sometimes criticizing them!). I’ve found it surprisingly fun to … Continue reading → The post More logicbites appeared first on Logic Matters.Peter Smith
Sanjeev Sabhlok's occasional blog
- Arguments used by Brett Sutton to enforce mandatory masks outdoors (result of an FOI request) 2021-04-08Someone (I’ll make note of the person’s name once I receive permission) has ferretted out the Sutton logic to impose mandatory masks outdoors in Victoria: DOWNLOAD HERE. I am desperately short of time. I invite anyone who has the time to go through this and provide a technical critique. REFERENCE The FOI request was for: “‘I […]Sanjeev Sabhlok
- Mass hysteria continues unabated, and if anyone thinks otherwise, have a look at these 2021-04-05Unless we actively engage with the 80% of the population that is living in a state of panic and fear, expect the worst. Totalitarian control by the state is coming. Today I lost 3 friends. They went on the attack because I had a different opinion to them, they think it’s ok for people to […]Sanjeev Sabhlok
- Comments by Elizabeth Hart on the vaccine passport 2021-04-02Via email vaccine passports are one of the major current battlefronts, and what a great interview with Naomi Wolf and Del Bigtree on the Highwire. FYI, I’ve attached a copy of an article on vaccine passports published in the UK Telegraph today, including some of the comments. Here are my two comments on the article, I’m […]Sanjeev Sabhlok
- Key players in the vaccines – an email received 2021-03-31AS RECEIVED – WITH ANNOTATIONS IN BLUE (only one note, below) There is no stopping this juggernaut. This is a scam and deception of mind-boggling proportions. Perhaps never before have politicians, all over the world (excepting Sweden?) been complicit in a single crime together. Who is the Hitler that will break his promises and attack […]Sanjeev Sabhlok
- The vaccine passport is indeed the last nail in the coffin of liberty – a permanent end to freedom of thought, as well 2021-03-31This video by Naomi Wolf is crucially important. https://t.me/sanjeevsabhlok/753 If you sleep walk into the Orwellian nightmare which Israel has already walked into, your future generations will never excuse you for your failure to think. Sadly, yesterday I took this message to the Bulleen shopping centre and one of the persons was angry because of […]Sanjeev Sabhlok
- Strong ongoing censorship by Big Tech – and a plea for critical thinking 2021-03-30This is an email I sent to some media people in Australia a moment ago. Please share this with the anyone from the media that you’re aware of. === Dear all I’m a candidate for the federal seat of Menzies in the forthcoming elections. I’ve been a whistleblower for the grossly disproportionate response we’re seeing from […]Sanjeev Sabhlok
- More resources on the most dangerous irrational “principle” of all time: the precautionary principle 2021-03-30I’ve written a LOT against this “principle”, e.g. How arch-socialist Maurice Strong steered the world towards precautionary principle and climate panic My next TOI blog post: Why the precautionary principle is bad policy The irrational “precautionary principle” marks the end of The Enlightenment CAME ACROSS MORE INFO: http://paralyzingprecautionprinciple.com/precautionary-principle-history.html The precautionary disaster The Cult of Precaution […]Sanjeev Sabhlok
- Another superb email by the brilliant Elizabeth Hart 2021-03-30PDF. ———- Forwarded message ——— From: Elizabeth Hart Date: Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 2:49 PM Subject: Who is at risk of ‘getting sick and dying’ with the SARS-CoV-2 virus? To: Peter Doherty Cc: Greg Hunt, Craig Kelly, Anthony Albanese, Mark Butler, Tanya Plibersek, Steven Marshall, Stephen Wade, Peter Malinauskas, Chris Picton, Nicola Spurrier, Vicki Chapman, […]Sanjeev Sabhlok
- Twitter backup account also not accessible 2021-03-30Here’s the snapshot of what I get, but the system doesn’t send any code – so I’m almost completely off Twitter now. Looks like this is going go be a permanent feature. Twitter hates the truth and will attack it at every opportunity.Sanjeev Sabhlok
- My Twitter account is suspended – without any reason why 2021-03-30Here’s what I get at https://twitter.com/sabhlok No idea what “rules” were involved. Might be my criticism of Twitter itself.Sanjeev Sabhlok
Tom Gilson
- From Heat to Light: Transforming the Heat of Cultural Controversy Into the Light of Spiritual Growth 2021-04-07We’re in a new season in American Christianity, with unprecedented heat falling upon believers. With it I’m now announcing a new season of equipping here at Thinking Christian. I’m titling it “From Heat to Light: Transforming the Heat of Cultural Controversy Into the Light of Spiritual Growth.” My first announcement on this went out in […]Tom Gilson
- Cincinnati-Dayton Apologetics Meetup March 20! 2021-03-11Greetings! If you live in or near southwest Ohio, you're invited to the first Cincinnati-Dayton area apologetics fellowship gathering, 10 am March 20, online via Zoom. This is the first of many gatherings. [button] We'll meet in person after this first online introduction meeting. Cade Cover, Ratio Christi director for the University of Cincinnati, will […]Tom Gilson
- This Week! Presenting a Strictly Bible-Centered Case for the Truth of the Resurrection (Without Circular Fallacies) 2021-02-08This might be a completely new case for the Resurrection. I could be wrong on that; I haven’t done the extensive research to know for sure. I do know that I haven’t heard it before. This week I’ll be sharing the keynote stage with William Lane Craig, Frank Turek, and Fazale Rana at the Areopagus […]Tom Gilson
- The Question of the Year: Will You Follow Jesus No Matter What? 2021-01-12I have never been so troubled by events in our country. I have never even imagined being so troubled. Conditions are ripe for totalitarianism, and even for an unholy holy war. One side in this conflict — the side that has established a grip now over nearly every major power center in America — has […]Tom Gilson
- Refutation Fail: Benjamin Cain Utterly Destroys an Argument I Didn’t Make 2021-01-07Benjamin Cain is an atheist who “did a doctorate in philosophy.” If I can tell his books by their covers, he spends much of his time now writing dark fiction. He’s also done me the favor of reading and responding to Too Good to be False, which I certainly appreciate. I’d appreciate it more, though, […]Tom Gilson
- How to Have a Merry Christmas — Even in 2020! 2020-12-24I wrote this originally for The Stream, but I’d like to share it with you. It’s about being able to celebrate even during this hard year — or even more so, just because of the hard year it’s been. It’s Christmastime… Christmastime 2020, that is. So, who feels like celebrating? We’ve got politicians telling us […]Tom Gilson
- Forget the Myths, Ignore the Hype; Here’s What We Really Know About Jesus’ ‘Missing Years’ 2020-12-15I’ll bet you missed this in the post-election brouhaha: “Christmas” began for Hindus with their Divali celebration in November. It fits for them because Jesus is the son of Brahman, one of their avatars (divine incarnations), the son of (Brahman). He spent six of his “missing” years in India, then went on to Tibet for […]Tom Gilson
- Faith at Work at Exxon-Mobil: A Conversation on Too Good to be False 2020-11-07A few weeks ago the Christian Community at Exxon-Mobil (Houston Campus) invited me to share with them on Too Good to be False. The host is Samuel Ortiz. I have to tell you, it was encouraging for me to be with some 85-90 people for a lunch-time fellowship there. It was virtual, of course. There […]Tom Gilson
- My Puzzling Problem with Too Good to be False 2020-11-02I’m looking for some help. Here’s the challenge I’ve been facing. It’s a good one; I’m not complaining; but it’s also a head-scratcher. I’m sure you’ve heard them (whoever “they” are) talking about “elevator pitches.” I’m supposed to come up with one for Too Good to be False: How Jesus’ Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality. The […]Tom Gilson
- This Critique of ‘What Passes for Serious Thought’ Comes Up Short on Serious Thought 2020-10-29He’s a writer, he’s a professor of biology, and Nathan Lents thinks my Evolution News essay on the gift of fall colors this week is “silly.” It’s “what passes for serious thought at the Discovery Institute,” and it’s pretty bad, he wants us to know. He stated it through a series of tweets starting here, […]Tom Gilson
- And the Skeptics Are Silent 2020-10-25It’s been a month. I’m still waiting for an answer. Who wrote Jesus’ character, and how? I said before, they treat Jesus as such an easy character to write, any old story-scrambler could come up with him. That’s my term for it, not theirs, naturally. As I argue in Too Good to be False, though, […]Tom Gilson
- Jesus is Greater Than You Knew (Video) 2020-10-16Video message, from The River Church in Liberty Township, Ohio: Jesus is greater than you knew! The post Jesus is Greater Than You Knew (Video) appeared first on Tom Gilson.Tom Gilson
- Does Too Good to be False Make the Muslims’ Mistake, ‘It’s Perfect, So It Must Be From God’? 2020-10-05Most people responding to Too Good to be False so far have been Christians telling the surprise and delight they’ve experienced in it by seeing Jesus in a new light. There’s more to it than that, though, in Part 2, where I build on this fresh view of Jesus, and make a completely new contribution […]Tom Gilson
- Why Do So Many Atheist Book Reviewers Want to Display Such Ignorance? 2020-10-03Too Good to be False received its first negative review on Amazon today. It’s exactly as I’d expected. I knew, based on prior experience, that there would be 1-star reviews coming, and I figured they’d be mostly from people who hadn’t read the book. I was right this time, at least. Why do they do […]Tom Gilson
- Why I’m Not Answering Non-Serious Objections to Too Good to be False 2020-09-29I’ve been looking forward to serious skeptical answers to Too Good to be False. Unfortunately after a couple responses, especially a recent one on YouTube by “Paulogia,” I’m still looking forward to it. This wasn’t one of them. There’s an expectation that an author will answer challenges such as Paulogia delivered in that video. I […]Tom Gilson
- Skeptics, Explain This, Please: Who Wrote Jesus’ Character, and How? 2020-09-23Who wrote Jesus’ character into the Gospels? How’d they do it? Skeptics treat this as if it were easy, and if that question had an easy answer. They’ve got a lot of catching up to do. I say this by way of answering Bob Seidensticker’s third post of four. It’s almost as if he thinks […]Tom Gilson
- Christ, Culture, Coffee, and an Interview on Too Good to be False 2020-09-21Coffee? Absolutely! But Robby Lashua — who’s really a great interview host — also says, “I love this book. You need to get it!” and… “This book is very different from the norm — in a good way. It’s so refreshing to read.” and also … “Through reading the book it’s been awesome to see […]Tom Gilson
- Disappointing: Seidensticker’s Atheist Critique Not Even Semi-Serious After All 2020-09-20It’s strange. You’d think an atheist as sure of himself as Bob Seidensticker would be more serious about it. Last week he blogged the question, “How Good Was Jesus if He Didn’t Eliminate Slavery?” I answered by explaining how the the principles Jesus’ taught cut every leg out from under slavery, even as he focused […]Tom Gilson
- Talking about Jesus’ Uniqueness, Yesterday on LIFE Today Live 2020-09-19Talking about Jesus, yesterday on LIFE Today Live with Randy Robison! The post Talking about Jesus’ Uniqueness, Yesterday on LIFE Today Live appeared first on Tom Gilson.Tom Gilson
- The First Semi-Serious Atheist Assault on Too Good to be False? 2020-09-17Bob Seidensticker really ought to read Too Good to be False. He’s a snarky atheist blogger, whose attitude earned him banning from this blog a long time ago. Still, though, if he’d read the book, he’d at least find out how prominently I mentioned him in it. It’s in the introduction, positioned such that it […]Tom Gilson
Thoughts Arguments and Rants
- Value and News in Evidential Decision Theory 2018-05-11A discussion of what desirabilities in Jeffrey's theory of decision ultimately mean.Brian Weatherson
- Absolute Value 2018-05-11An objection to the version of Desire as Belief that Stephen Daskall defended in "Absolute Value as Belief".Brian Weatherson
- Over Time, Citations Get More Uneven 2017-05-18In an earlier post, I compared the distribution of citations within Journal of Philosophy, 1976 and Philosophical Studies, 2009. And I noted that although the two ended up in similar places, they got there in different ways. Journal of Philosophy was largely relying on some hugely cited papers; while the distribution of citations in Philosophical […]Brian Weatherson
- Citations are Getting More Evenly Distributed 2017-05-12I claimed yesterday that citations within journals are getting more egalitarian. To verify this, I pulled the citation data for two prominent years: The Journal of Philosophy, 1976 and Philosophical Studies, 2009. I couldn’t find an easy way to get just the citations in Arts & Humanities, so this table includes all the citations in […]Brian Weatherson
- Two More Graphs 2017-05-11Just as a follow up to the previous post, here are the graphs for six more journals. First their citations in the other 31. Then their citations in the whole of Web of Science Arts and Humanities. (Note that this sometimes severely understates how many citations they have elsewhere in the academy, especially for philosophy […]Brian Weatherson
- Changes in Who is Cited 2017-05-11The dataset of citations I’m looking at starts in 1976. And I can break down not just which journals are cited, but which years of those journals are cited. (And which years they are cited in, but I’m setting aside that data for now.) So as well as asking which journal is the most cited […]Brian Weatherson
- Citation Graphs, One Journal at a Time 2017-05-10The big graphs I posted earlier have so much information, that much of it gets lost in the mess of lines. So I’ve broken down the data to create a graph just involving each journal’s interactions with the other 31. Here are the graphs. (As always, click on each for a larger image.) British Journal […]Brian Weatherson
- Citation Graphs and Methodology 2017-05-04Last week I posted some graphs showing how often various journals cite other journals. Here is one of those graphs, just to remind you what they looked like. I didn’t say particularly clearly how I got the data, or even exactly what the graphs meant. So here’s the long methodology post showing how I ended […]Brian Weatherson
- Citations of History Journals 2017-04-27Yesterday I posted some data about how often journals cite other journals. And one of the things that jumped out was how rarely generalist journals cite various specialist journals. I suggested an inference from that: generalist journals are not as generalist as they are often thought to be. And I think that’s largely correct, and […]Brian Weatherson
- Citation Patterns Across Journals 2017-04-26I’ve been interested for a while in the different things that get attention in different philosophy journals. Part of what got me interested in this was looking at the ways that different well known articles get cited, or not, in different journals. Below is a table showing how many times (according to Web of Science), […]Brian Weatherson