A tribute to Anand Vaidya: Manjula Menon discusses the significance of extraordinary experiences to three authors of science fiction, Philip K. Dick, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Aldous Huxley.
Essays
These are (mainly) longer form essays. Many of those written prior to 2024 also appeared in the print version of The Philosophers’ Magazine.
Capturing the Gods
Joshua Bennett reviews Kwame Anthony Appiah’s study of how thinking about religion shaped early social science.
Hereditarianism Without Races?
Oliver Traldi draws a controversial conclusion about what makes hereditarianism so controversial.
The Commentator Vanishes
Michael Bonner reviews a study of the disappearance of Averroes from the history of Western philosophy.
Spinoza, Atheist?
Stephen Harrop is not persuaded by Steven Nadler’s argument that Spinoza was an atheist.
On the Subordination of Scholarship to Politics
Paul Boghossian adumbrates the qualified criticisms of a recent report on the humanities, and responds to counter-critics.
Phaedo 2: Judgement Day
Can you blog your way to Elysium?
Hyperintensionality: For or Against? Part II
Kit Fine and Timothy Williamson debate the nature and existence of hyperintensionality (Part II).
Hyperintensionality: For or Against? Part I
Kit Fine and Timothy Williamson debate the nature and existence of hyperintensionality (Part I).
The Problem with Everything
Daniel Kodsi and John Maier argue that all battles in the culture wars depend on the same philosophical mistake.
