The PhilPapers survey results came out last week, and there’s already been a fair amount of discussion of them on the web. They seem to raise two big issues in particular: the obvious is something unsurprising, but that may never have been documented before: philosophers specializing in philosophy of religion, as a class, differ in [...]
Category Archives: metaphysics
The PhilPapers Survey: Believers, Peers, and Experts
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 20, 2009
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How agnostic are you willing to be in philosophy?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on November 18, 2009
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Should finding out that other people disagree about something with you lead you to be agnostic about it, or at least moderate your views? I tend to think “yes,” but Peter van Inwagen has pointed out one difficulty for this view, especially for philosophy people like me: an awful lot of our beliefs are subjects [...]
Why decent philosophers use too much jargon
Posted by Chris Hallquist on November 18, 2009
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In general, I think analytic philosophy (as in current, Anglophone academic philosophy) has a lot going for it. It’s the only subculture in the world that really tries to cultivate the skills needed to think clearly as such, as opposed to just doing competent work in one specialty. But there are also trends in it [...]
Metaphysics in xkcd
Posted by Chris Hallquist on November 7, 2009
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This makes me feel good, knowing that normal people wonder about these questions too.
Joshua Rosenau on truth
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 22, 2009
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A week ago, Jerry Coyne wrote a blog post accusing Josh Rosenau of the NCSE of, among other things, denying the existence of truth. I finally found the time to look at the Rosenau post Coyne was talking about, and while I wonder whether Coyne’s attack was quite accurate, Rosenau certainly does provide a lot [...]