Last updated on 18 Sep 2017
Yes, you can vote for your favourite philosophy blog entry. In addition to a certain immodest antipodean ape, there are a number of other interesting posts I have bolded in the list beneath the fold. You choose. No pressure…
- 3 Quarks Daily: Penne For Your Thought
- 3 Quarks Daily: The Temporal Prospects of Humanity
- Another Heidegger Blog: Interview with Jeffery Malpas
- Biophilia: Altruism Through Genocide
- Biophilia: Holy Gibberish!
- Blog & ~Blog: Graham Priest’s Theory of Change
- Brain Hammer: Bandwidth and Storage in the Human Biocomputer
- Cognition and Culture: Descarte’s Skull
- Der Wille Zur Macht und Sprachspiele: Nietzsche’s Causal Essentialism
- Engage: Conversations in Philosophy: Empathy, Equity, and the Wise Latina Judge: Sotomayor and the Supreme Court Oath of Office
- Evolving Thoughts: Aristotle on the Mayfly
- Evolving Thoughts: “Class” War
- Evolving Thoughts: Darwin, Atheism, and the Catholic Church
- Evolving Thoughts: Darwin, God and Chance
- Evolving Thoughts: Darwin thought evolution relied on accidents and chance
- Evolving Thoughts: Definitions of Atheism
- Evolving Thoughts: How to derive an ontology in biology
- Evolving Thoughts: Information and Metaphysics
- Evolving Thoughts: Laws, Theories and Models
- Evolving Thoughts: Phenomena
- Evolving Thoughts: Philosophy and Evolution
- Evolving Thoughts: The Doctrine of Double Truth
- How Not to Win A War: Light ’em up, Baber!
- How Not to Win A War: On Ideology
- Hyper Tiling: Unheimlich Realism (and Zombies)
- In Living Color: Can you be blamed for forgetting?
- In Search of Enlightenment: The Availability Heuristic and the Inborn Aging Process
- Justin Erik Halldór Smith: The Fundamentals of Gelastics
- Larval Subjects: Object-Oriented Ontology and Scientific Naturalism
- Larval Subjects: Speculative Realism and the Unheimlich
- Let Us Philosophize: Against Much Erudition
- Matters of Substance: How Many Regions of Spacetime Actually Exist?
- Methods of Projection: Wittgenwanker
- Minerva’s Howl: On Retrospective Prophecy
- MSU Philosophy Club: Philosophy and Video Games: Idealism and Closure
- Object-Oriented Philosophy: English Stylists and Related Matters
- PEA Soup: Constraints: Agent-Focused or Victim-Focused
- PEA Soup: Scanlon on Moral Responsibility and Blame
- Perverse Egalitarianism: Early Heidegger: Fundamental Ontology
- Philosophy, et cetera: Reflecting on Relativism
- Philosophy Sucks!: The Contestability of (P & ~Q)
- Philosophy Sucks!: Reflections on Zoombies and Shombies Or: After the Showdown at the APA
- Possibly Philosophy: Uncertainty in the Many Worlds Theory
- Public Reason: On Public Reason and Justificatory Liberalism
- Specter of Reason: Discovery, Demonstration, and Naturalism
- Specter of Reason: The Language of Consciousness
- Specter of Reason: Wise on Intelligent Design in the Classroom
- Strange Doctrines: Third-World Zombies and (Ana) Qualiac Reference
- The Edge of the American West: Part 1, All noble things are as difficult as they are rare
- The Edge of the American West: Part 2, The Best of All Possible Worlds
- The Edge of the American West: Part 3, Why should we be loyal to reason if it pushes us into the abyss?
- The Garden of Forking Paths: Defining Determinism and Such
- The Garden of Forking Paths: To Hell With the TNR Principle
- The Immanent Frame: Immanent Spirituality
- The Prosblogion: An Opinionated Play-by-Play of the Plantinga-Dennett Exchange
- The Space of Reasons: A Counterexample to Setiya
- The Space of Reasons: Dilworth’s Functional Consonance
- Tomkow: Blackburn, Truth and other Hot Topics
- Tomkow: The Good, The Bad and Peter Singer
- Underverse: Refuting “It,” Thus
- Wide Scope: Emotions and Moral Skepticism
- Yeah, OK, But Still: An Ethics of Honor
- Zompist: Understanding the Chinese Room
Zompist’s post is particularly good.
In order to vote fairly, and I try always to be fair, I would have to read the 51 entries that are not by you and then go back and read the 12 entries that are by you and then re-read all the ones that inpressed me the first time followed by re-reading those that continued to please the second time round and then…
Forgetit! I’m not voting!
Don’t be such a wimp, Thorny! I’ll vote for a random one by Wilkins, just on principle.
Brian Leiter was apparently very unhappy with the way this turned out:
http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2009/08/i-will-probably-regret-mentioning-this.html
I am convinced that #32 (the one about regions of spacetime) is meaningless nonsense. Hasn’t the blogger studied his Ly Tin Wheedle? All places are one place, and that place is very large. End of discussion.
All I know is that his transfinite arithmetic is crap!
I just played to my own bias (perhaps my two week crash course reading up on the history of science at the national library is having an influence)and picked the one most usefull to me.
As transfinite arithmetic does not score high in my list of things to do went for the Doctrine of Double Truth instead.
I looked through all the articles yesterday, and made a shortlist of those that I considered worth another look when my brain was fresh. This morning I’ve taken that second look, and come to the conclusion that out of those articles which I have not read before, there is not a single one that makes me feel enriched to have read it. Not a single one that I could recommend to others. At best, some articles are interesting in their incidental observations but not in their conclusions.
Those that I have read before are those by Wilkins, and the one by Zompist (Mark Rosenfelder). But I thought the articles were supposed to have been written in the last year? The one by Zompist is old, as in really old, as in I’m sure it was published on his website in the nineties.
Both Wilkins and Zompist belong to the set of people whose online writings (such as blogs) I read regularly.
De gustibus non est disputandum, as they say.
Who are they?
You know, they. “Them”. Oh, and Seneca.