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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No one else compares. Consider what the monster child has done in just six months: Trump pardoned all the stormtrooper rioters of January 6, 2021, including many who had assaulted law enforcement.

UPDATE: Originally posted March 23, 2005. ==================== This essay, my contribution to The Future for Philosophy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), is now available for free download here. This ...

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.

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 ...

Blaming the victim is apparently OK when the accused in a Title IX proceeding is a feminist literary theorist ...

The top ten still living philosophers of mind from this poll are Fodor, Dennett, Putnam, Chalmers, Nagel, Searle, Block, Chomsky, Kim, and Jackson, and Burge. I confess to being surprised that Ruth ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...