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Back in 2020.Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics. The world's most popular philosophy ...

Professor Pappas, who was emeritus at Ohio State University, where he spent most of his career, was well-known for his work in epistemology and on the philosophy of George Berkeley. There is an ...

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As Trump gears up for a war of aggression against Venezuela, it's only fitting that he has proposed calling the "Department of Defense" by its traditional name, "the Department of War," since that has ...

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MOVING TO FRONT FROM AUGUST 6 (ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 13): see for what counts as a suitable submission below--no anonymous posts The last thread had 39 submissions, so I thought it's time for a ...

H e knows it's about class warfare, against the class that actually matters ("the billionaires and their puppet politicans"). He also gives a good account of "distraction ideology" in the Marxian ...

Interesting data via Professor Schwitzgebel. I can imagine a couple of factors that have contributed to this trend, which seems to have gotten under way in the early part of the last decade. First, ...

But it has long been distrusted by vaccine skeptics [i.e., morons], and Mr. Kennedy has been sharply critical, once calling Covid shots “the deadliest vaccine ever made.” In a video posted on social ...

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Perhaps more surprisingly, a tenured University of Toronto professor was "suspended" after her own inflammatory remarks on Twitter (remarks that were not, it seems, even about the murder of Mr. Kirk ) ...