In 2020, the University of Edinburgh renamed what was then called Hume Tower, removing the name of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume on the grounds that Hume supported slavery and was a racist. Recently, David Ashton and Peter Hutton have written two pieces (here and here, and see also the post on this […]
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This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
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This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
philosophybits: “Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.” — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia
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[Revised entry by Richard Healey on September 8, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Quantum theory is fundamental to...
Below is the audio recording of Lisa Tessman’s presidential address, “Holding Ourselves Responsible: When What Rightly Matters Doesn’t Really Matter,”...
