“Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims
Foucault’s critique of power and knowledge shaped poststructuralism, yet its rejection of truth risks becoming its own orthodoxy. To remain...
This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
philosophybits: “Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make...
Below is the audio recording of Margaret Gilbert’s presidential address, “Collective Belief: Kinds, Contexts, and Consequences,” given at the 2024...
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 monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful....
