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“Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning,…
philosophybits: “Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make...
2024 Pacific Division Presidential Address: Collective Belief: Kinds, Contexts, and Consequences
Below is the audio recording of Margaret Gilbert’s presidential address, “Collective Belief: Kinds, Contexts, and Consequences,” given at the 2024...
I Do Analytic Jurisprudence. This Is Why It Matters
This August, law professor Lawrence B. Solum published a blog directed to law students entitled, “Why Read The Concept of...
“Let’s suppose that man is not stupid… But if he isn’t stupid then he is nonetheless…”
“Let’s suppose that man is not stupid… But if he isn’t stupid then he is nonetheless monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful....
“The perfection of generosity is said to result from the mental attitude of…
philosophybits: “The perfection of generosity is said to result from the mental attitude of relinquishing all that one has to...
“Academics routinely betray their best selves and lapse into a tendentious moralism when they enter the wider world of American political debate”
"Academics routinely betray their best selves and lapse into a tendentious moralism when they enter the wider world of American...
“We live in a time and a place when and where taste, inner resourcefulness, and fortitude are neither encouraged nor rewarded”
“We live in a time and a place when and where taste, inner resourcefulness, and fortitude are neither encouraged nor...