Because of the megaphone of the Trumpistas, aided and abetted by the mass media, it is easy to forget how much falsehood is being forced upon us on a daily basis, some of which is then taken up by the ...

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There have been two main traditions of theorizing about society, politics, and law in Western thought, but they do not divide up along familiar lines of modern or ancient, Enlightenment or ...

In the last 12 hours, the blog has gotten an extraordinary amount of traffic due to the McGinn case, and social media has been awash with debate. I offer a few, further observations of my own: 1.

Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be ...

The results from the last poll (about three years ago) are here. The Cornell faculty can certainly take pride in the impressive consensus among philosophers about their successful stewardship of the ...

So with not quite 1,000 participants, and nearly 90,000 votes on comparisons cast, here are the top 25 (the score in parentheses reflects the odds of the journal prevailing in a comparison): 1.

636 votes in our latest poll, on the best "general" journals of philosophy (those that publish in multiple areas). The "top 20" are bolded--beyond that the results are even less meaningful I expect.

MOVING TO FRONT FROM JULY 3, UPDATED With almost 550 votes in our earlier poll, here are the results: 1. Philosophical Review (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other choices) 2. Journal of ...

So with almost 550 votes cast, and voting have slowed dramatically, here are the results of our latest poll. First, there are the "big seven" who dominate all others on the list: 1. Oxford University ...

FIRE organized a debate between myself and Prof Brian Soucek (UC Davis) on this topic. Here is a recording, for those interested: I found it constructive and illuminating; it made clear that a key ...