Why The Leiter Report’s Professional Academic Philosophy Rankings Are Misguided, Misleading, And Mistaken.

Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted in urgent problems outside philosophy, and they die if these roots decay (Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations) Philosophy itself never begins anything. This beginning has already happened elsewhere.  That is why the theme of the beginning, seen purely and simply from within the realm of philosophy, provides us with … [continue reading]

An Open Letter to the University of Chicago Philosophy Department, Re: “Thinking And Being: A Conference With Irad Kimhi.”

All theory, my friend, is grey But green life’s golden tree.(Faust I) If there were a verb meaning ‘to believe falsely,’ it would not have a meaningful first person present indicative. (L. Wittgenstein) I was thinking, which is something a man should not do. (Dean Jagger as Colonel Stovall, in “Twelve O’Clock High,” Twentieth Century … [continue reading]