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Thomas Nagel Jumps the Shark, Part IIDec 2, 2009
What else can one say when a prominent, and formerly reputable, philosopher lends the fame of his name to endorse the latest misleading hatchet job on biological science by Stephen Meyer, one of the key figures in the Discovery...
Does Academia, Including Philosophy, Exclude People Based on Class?Dec 1, 2009
A political theorist writes: I am pleased that the Leiter Reports continues to provide a forum for discussing the important issue of gender imbalance in academic philosophy. It needs to be noted, however, that some of the regular discussions regarding...
New Philosophers' Carnival is...Dec 1, 2009
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Philosophy AudiobooksNov 30, 2009
Reader Ken Feinstein kindly calls my attention to Librivox.org which has many free audibooks for download, including major works of philosophy: Hume's Treatise (vol. 1), for example, as well as works by Plato, Mill, and Kant, among others. Of...
Annals of Scathing Book Reviews, Part 78Nov 30, 2009
From a review of André Burguière's Annales School: An Intellectual History (translated by Jane Marie Todd) by Cambridge historian Richard J. Evans: Self-important, pompous, pretentious, solipsistic, often obscure, sometimes barely coherent, his book...
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