Obscure and Confused Ideas

I have just started working on an 'opinionated introduction' to free logic for the Cambridge Elements series in Philosophy and Logi...

I teach bioethics most years. And like many people who teach bioethics, I teach Don Marquis’s article that argues that typical cases of vol...

Many people on my timeline are sharing this excellent interview with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/p...

One way of formulating Scientific Realism is as follows: What our successful scientific theories say about unobservable entities and proce...

EDIT: ADDED Oct. 16 2018: As Karim Zahidi notes in the first comment below, I made an elementary logical error in thinking that (1) is evide...

I’ll start briefly with a few reminders and fix a little terminology. I then introduce a new(?) sub-species of underdetermination argument,...

For me, one of the interesting experiences of getting older is seeing, from the internal first-person perspective, many of the generalizatio...

Given how much has been written in the last couple of decades about the situationist challenge to virtue ethics, I'm guessing someone h...

Two things: 1. Synthese recently published Pierre Wagner's article Carnapian and Tarskian Semantics , which outlines some important di...

The most popular versions of realism in the scientific realism debates today are species of selective realism . A selective realist does no...