Make sure you tune in to Robert Talisse’s guest appearance on “Philosophy Bites.”

From the NYT the other day:
In short, some psychologists say, the findings support the philosopher Martin Heidegger’s observation that time “persists merely as a consequence of the events taking place in it.”

As my friend Robert Talisse is fond of saying, “I’m a Peircean, I’m not Peirce.”
To prove that all Heideggerians are Nazis, they must be able to exlain how Dreyfus’ Being-in-the-World is either crypto-fascist or a blatant misread of Heidegger.  The critics are unable to do either, because their argument proceed from a guilt by association [...]

Newsweek’s Mark Sanford on the value of Ayn Rand in today’s world.
Over the past year, we’ve seen Washington try to solve all our problems—chiefly by borrowing billions from future generations—to little effect. In that sense, this is a very good time for a Rand resurgence. She’s more relevant than ever.
Funnily enough, the sentences leading up [...]

Hilarious.

It has become quite popular to push the work of John Rawls aside on the claim that it is not “real politics.”  I am not surprised that an old teacher of mine, William Galston, has a similar view. 
Even at its best, politics cannot be a branch of moral philosophy, or a kind of rational choice, [...]

Will Wilkinson writes:  
Here is a good debate proposition: It ought to be less embarrassing to have been influenced by Ayn Rand than by Karl Marx.
Without any further details, I’d actually say that this is NOT a good debate proposition from a scholarly perspective, though it would perhaps make a fun college debate round.  Even then, it [...]

I have been listening to the 2007 John Locke Lectures by Robert C. Stanlaker while I have been doing yard work.   In his lectures, he takes on a famous epistemological problem about a character named Mary:
Mary is a brilliant scientist who is, for whatever reason, forced to investigate the world from a black and [...]

(Cross-Posted in comments at Public Reason)
Jason Brennan of Brown University with an interesting take on the implications of Condorcet Jury Theorem:
So, if you defend democracy using the standard formulation of Condorcet’s Jury Theorem, it seems that you should think having 120 million Americans vote is kind of a waste of time. It would be far [...]

One of the nice discoveries of being in a Derek Parfit reading group - aside from encountering Parfit - is that I am going to stumble upon some other interesting and thoughtful blogs as others host the chapters.  As such, I have very belatedly run into an Arendt question that apparently has people talking, both here and [...]