I should stand for Parliament perhaps 7 May 2010 It’s the going thing in the UK. H/T Leiter. Humor Philosophy Politics Philosophy
Biology When philosophy meets historical taxonomy 5 Apr 2010 Chris Taylor does this absolutely amazing blog. I find myself checking to see if he’s done another one of his wonderful taxon posts, where he picks some usually obscure group of animals and makes them interesting and alive. He’s done it again, for indrids, a group of lemurs, but what… Read More
Politics Moral atheists 16 May 2009 I find it highly ironic that the people taking the moral stand here are the atheists: It does not matter if it prevented some sort of attack. It is still a crime, it is still wrong, and those responsible for it deserve criminal prosecution. No amount of talk about 9/11… Read More
Metaphysics Philosophy quote: Nagel on Analytic Philosophy 1 Oct 20114 Oct 2011 In 1935, Ernest Nagel spent a year traveling around European philosophy departments, and he reported his observations on what he called the new “analytic philosophy” in the Journal of Philosophy. I was particularly taken by his programmatic description: the men with whom I have talked are impatient with philosophic systems… Read More
The Torries used the line that labour were all post modernists a few years back and were theirfore all liars given it’s truth claims. One of Oliver Letwin’s less sucessfull attack plans I suspect. I remembered the claim last week when I had to explain to the only conservative I know what non-empirical meant. He was utterly unacquainted with it’s meaning.