Category Archives: philosophy

Philosophy Bites: Bakewell on Montaigne

Posted on 17 March, 2011 by Simon

Part of the Philosophy Bites podcast series. Nigel Warburton interviews Sarah Bakewell on the great essayist and philosopher, Michel de Montaigne. Continue reading →

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eText: On the connection between Justice and Utility – JS Mill

Posted on 10 March, 2011 by Simon

Chapter 5 of Utilitarianism, by John Stuart Mill (pub. 1863). Continue reading →

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Hugely extended Graeco-Roman philosophy page

Posted on 7 March, 2011 by Simon

I’m pleased to say that my page of links to Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy has been quite considerably extended, and now includes more pre-Socratics, more Plato and Aristotle, and gives a kind of edited chronology up to and including … Continue reading →

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eText: What Is Enlightenment? – Kant

Posted on 3 March, 2011 by Simon

Immanuel Kant’s (1784) answer to this question. Continue reading →

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Philosophy Bites: personality disorders and morality

Posted on 28 February, 2011 by Simon

Jonathan Glover on personality disorders, conscience and moral responsibility. Continue reading →

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Can we know that our friends are real?

Posted on 20 February, 2011 by Simon

John Turri has an interesting and amusing post on the US Air Force’s plan to create “fictional personas” on various social networking sites.

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Philosophy Bites: Hugh Mellor on Frank Ramsey

Posted on 20 February, 2011 by Simon

An excellent metaphysician on the approach to truth of a mathematician and logician who achieved a huge amount in a short life. Should be great! Continue reading →

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Parodies of the ontological argument for the existence of God

Posted on 19 February, 2011 by Simon

Alexander Pruss examines what it would take to create a good parody of the ontological argument. But is it really any more “natural” or plausible to consider “a maximally great being” than “a maximally great island” (or maximally great anything … Continue reading →

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Stating “the problem of evil”

Posted on 18 February, 2011 by Simon

Keith Parsons has written a lengthy but very clear exposition of the problem(s) of evil.

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Falling trees, quantum mechanics and philosophy

Posted on 16 February, 2011 by Simon

Jim Baggott thinks about quantum mechanical answers to the old question, “if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear, does it make a sound?”

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