![]() ![]() Stroud (Texas) on the development, in India, of "something absolutely unique in the pragmatist tradition" “Dewey inspired Ambedkar to evolve a sort of pragmatism that targeted caste oppression, but which built up a vision of democratic social systems that allowed individuals to matter” - Scott R.“We need to come to our senses and abandon an unprecedented and perverse form of acculturation that is bad for current and future generations alike” - Talbot Brewer (Virginia) on attention, markets, and the "ongoing tragedy of the cultural commons".“The attribution of lying can yield the best interpretation of an author regardless of how strongly he condemns lying” - argue Roy Sorenson and Ian Proops (Texas).“We cannot go back in time and undo the processes that pushed female philosophers into the periphery” of early analytic philosophy - but "historians can play a role in correcting the omissions, oversights and even downright mistakes our predecessors made," as Jeanne Peijnenburg (Groningen) and Sander Verhaegh (Tilburg) do.“The most important form of progress in philosophy: opening up new ideas about what might possibly be true” - Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside) on “philosophy that opens”.“Motivated and biased reasoning can bring knowledge and understanding, even when it involves ignoring good quality information” - Kathleen Puddifoot (Durham) on why cognitive bias doesn't always lead people astray.“It’s reasonable to say that analytic philosophy has always been in a state of (meta-)philosophical crisis” - Aaron Preston (Valparaiso) on analytic philosophy, moral knowledge, metaphilosophical eudaimonism, personalism, political discourse, and more.The claim that nothing is true, some say, is “incoherent or otherwise self-defeating,” or epistemically “costly” - but it's neither, argues Will Gamester (Leeds).Personalized medicine “purports to both tailor health care and drive down costs, but the more it succeeds at individualization, the higher go the prices” - Jim Tabery (Utah) on the tensions between personalized medicine and public health.And some of those conflicts are going to be between beauty and morality” - Alexander Nehamas (Princeton) in conversation with Jonny Thakkar (Swarthmore) “I don’t think you’ll be able to resolve all conflicts in life.Substack is where the service New Work in Philosophyis published. The Splintered Mind by Eric Schwitzgebel.Philosophy for the People by Ben Burgis.The Philosophical Economistby Erik Angner.Here’s a list of Substacks by philosophers I’m aware of: To keep things manageable, let’s limit this post to Substacks by philosophy professors or those with at least some graduate training in philosophy. So I thought it would be useful to create a space to list them. Yet it can be difficult to find philosophers’ Substacks if you’re not already aware of them, or if they are not especially popular. Substack, the online publishing platform, appears to be increasing in popularity among philosophers as a place to blog and share ideas via newsletter. ![]()
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