Philosophy

Motivating Philosophy

This article of mine, motivating the study of philosophy, appeared last Friday in Quillette:
The Indispensable Study of Inescapable Matters

For those who do not know Quillette, here is Jordan Peterson interviewing Quillette founder Claire Lehmann:

Here is an article about Lehmann and Quillette:
Australia’s Mistress of the Intellectual Dark Web

Here is a New York Times article about the so-called “Intellectual Dark Web,” consisting of popular dissident intellectuals such as Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, and Dave Rubin:
Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web
The article describes Quillette as “the publication most associated with this movement.”

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For the past couple of months, I have been back at my long-term project of writing a book on my theory of knowledge. In 2002, I wrote a 35,000-word draft of what I thought would eventually be a treatise, many times that length, requiring many years of additional work. Perhaps I will still write that treatise; but, in the meantime, I have decided to add just a few sections to my draft and publish it several months from now.

While I complete this book, I probably will not blog much.