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Why Obey?

Evaluating Epistemic Contextualism, Cont.

No Cookbook!

Holiday Reflection: Why be Good?

Three Problems Today

Brief Thoughts on the Moral and Epistemic Duties of Protest

The Principle of Double Effect and the Problem of Dirty Hands

Provisional Responses to the Problem of Dirty Hands

The Problem of Dirty Hands

On Being a Good Debater

Badness and Experience

Is death bad for dead people when they are dead?

Living Well and Living Long Enough

Aimed or Aimless Graying?

The Plausibility of Infallibilism

Wisdom and Grief

The Critical Space

Philosophy: a Palimpsest

You can’t argue with science?

Is Death a Termination?

Your Doxastic Life: Nails or Screws?

The Ethics of Bodyweight

AI Teachers?

The Philosophy of Art Collection

Driving and Agency

Music, Autonomy, and Heteronomy

Photography and Three Views of Time

Person, Image, and Name

The Ethics and Epistemology of AI

On the Goodness of God: Socrates, Plato, and Most Christians Against Calvinists

Reasons to Read Shakespeare: The Ontic Outruns the Epistemic

Diogenes' Knapsack

Political Libertarianism and Tacit Consent

Teaching and Grading in the University

A Reflection on the Economy of Salvation

The Curious Circularity of the Industrial Revolution

Reading and Expertise

Coddling Contemporary Minds?

Coming of Age

On Not Doing What You Could Do

A Recent Conversation on Pessimism

Is Bodybuilding an Art?

Blaise Pascal

On Wishful Thinking

Are you a value hedonist?

Nietzsche and the Judge in Blood Meridian

An Evaluation of Justice Jackson’s Dissenting Argument in SFFA v. Harvard

Brief and Exploratory Thoughts on the Philosophy of Celebration

An Example of the Harm Objection to Consequentialism

Are ‘Smart Cities’ Smart?

The Tragedy of Macbeth and the Philosophy of Death

Time, Death, and Existence

War and Peace

On What Solitude Can Do

Safety of the One and the Many

A Realistic View of Democracy

Examining a Definition of ‘Knowledge’

The Sunset Limited

Cormac McCarthy

Doubly Artificial Intelligence?

Solitude and Acedia

What Good are Laws without Morals?

A Paradox of Seeking Sagehood

How to Spin ‘Nothing’

The Traveler and the Stayer

On Forcing the Affirmation of a Proposition

Are Values Comparable?

“Real World” Problems

Skepticism About Government Engaging in Science

The Ethics of Conversation

Exaggeration in Journalism

Rethinking the Euthyphro Dilemma

Mill on Better and Worse Ways of Being

The Micromanager and the Woodpecker

Moral Philosophy and Literature

The Doxastic Bed of Procrustes

Philosophy, Politics, and the Young

Dolor hic tibi proderit olim?

Different Senses of 'Debate'

Aesthetics: Bob Marley on Music

Science and Knowledge

Wisdom and Grief

Thinking Clearly About the Useful and the Useless

Agreement by Manipulation

The Place of Desire in Morality

The Ethics of Taking Offense

Reason and Will

Learning and Understanding

Obstinacy and Closed-mindedness

Fallacy: The Appeal to the Foreign

Two Versions of the Golden Age Fallacy

The Benefits and Risks of being Well-read

Flash Post: Lagom

Volcanology and Philosophy

Short Dialogue from a Moral Philosophy Class

Haiku: the Lamp of Diogenes

On Trophy-hunting and Trophy-fishing

Are ‘Smart Cities’ Smart?

Investigating the Conditions for a Meaningful Life

No Progress in Philosophy?

Some Problems Concerning Epistemic Justification

The Modal Ontological Argument and the Possibility Premise

Habits and Our Language About Knowledge

Politicians, Knowledge, and Belief

Thinking About Civics

Belief Is A Taking Not Making True

Halving the Words

Wounded by wonder? Or by its absence?

Education and Training

Choice and Animality

On Tolerance

Curiosity and Similar Mental States

The Spirit of Philosophy

More on Wisdom and Travel

Wisdom and Travel

Epistemic Autonomy and Open Inquiry

Aretē and Agōn

On Virtue

Truth and Error

The Problem of the Hammer

Custom and Morality

On the Unjust Application of Just Law

Love and Self-Defense

Unenforced Laws

They Live Apart

On Dialectic

Obstinacy, Open-mindedness, and Gullibility

Does the Future Exist?

Deductive and Inductive Arguments

Tempos Estranhos

A Healthy Diet

A Paradox or a Contradiction?

Libet? Non Liquet.

The Dangers of Levelling

A Cumulative Case for Libertarian Freedom

Examining the Pragmatic Theory of Truth

Amphibolous Language About Value

Examining Attentive Perspectivalism

On Category Mistakes

Human life: to be laughed at or lamented?

Noisy Interruption

On "Living Constitutionalism"

On the Flaws of Pop Standpoint Theory

Psychology, Theology, and Religion

Flash Post: Other Minds

Romans 5:18 and 2 Thessalonians 1:9: The Matter Is Not Obvious, Despite Claims Otherwise

Plato on the Problem of Evil

The Meaning of Life: Various Questions

Nihil admirari, and yet, wonder

Coming Closer to Quietus

Roger Bacon on Obstacles to Wisdom

Examining Epistemic Contextualism

Skepticism and the Closure of Knowledge

Are You a Brain in a Vat?

Kant on Religious Superstition and Fetishism

Knowledge, Tables, and Metronomes

Manichaeism and the Problem of Evil

A Value Objectivist and a Value Subjectivist at an Art Museum

A Dialogue about Bodily Rights

A Reflection on Epistemic Peer Disagreement

A Short Reflection on Perfect Being Theology

John Lennon and the Crooked Timber of Humanity