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Some Things We All Should Agree On
By Daniel A. Kaufman ___ Sometimes it is useful to try and identify a number of things that everyone should be able to agree on. To the extent to which our moral and political positions may depend…
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Electric Agora Editor Dan Tippens offers a direction for public philosophy over on the APA blog!

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June 29 at 8:00 AM

by Daniel Tippens In May, I attended a public philosophy workshop at UNC Chapel Hill, and one of the aims for the weekend was to help early-career scholars refi...ne and develop an essay in public philosophy. But a more implicit aim -- which came out clearly during the talks -- was to discuss our institutional reputation with the public, and why that reputation is so poor. [ 2,704 more words ]
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Philosophy’s PR Problem: The Devil is the Details
by Daniel Tippens   In May, I attended a public philosophy workshop at UNC Chapel Hill, and one of the aims for the weekend was to help early-career scholars refine and develop an essay in pub…
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Crankish Thinking
by Mark English The term ‘conspiracy theory’, though it no doubt serves a useful purpose when used in carefully-considered ways, is most often used in polemical contexts simply as a derogatory desc…
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Provocations
by Daniel A. Kaufman __ American politics is dead, or at least, it’s so completely fucked that it would be better off dead. What we call “politics” today, when compared to the genuine article, is …
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Belief and Knowledge Reconsidered
E. John Winner How did we ever come to use such an expression as “I believe . . . “? Did we at some time become aware of a phenomenon (of belief)? Did we observe ourselves and other p…
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In this 36 page dissertation introduction, Electric Agora editor Dan Tippens argues that the United States is descending into Tyranny.

By drawing on towering figures like George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Edward Bernays, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Leo Tolstoy, Dan weaves together issues in mass media, social media, the military-industrial complex, wealth inequality, and the arts and letters institutions. What emerges is a very broad picture of the position that United States citizens are in, today.

https://theelectricagora.com/2018/06/15/the-common-sense/

ANNOUNCING: A Dissertation Introduction

Electric Agora Editor Dan Tippens would like to share a non-technical, impressionistic introduction to his Philosophy PhD thesis!

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Announcing: A Dissertation Introduction
Dear Readers, As you may know, I’m in the Philosophy Ph.D program at the University of Miami. Over the past year I’ve been developing the contours of my dissertation, and have written a non-t…
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Language and Meaning
by Mark English The topic of eliminative materialism (or ‘eliminativism’ as its current manifestation is usually called) has been the focus of some recent debate. What prompted this piece, however,…
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https://theelectricagora.com/…/06/05/epithets-in-philosophy/

Epithets in Philosophy
By Daniel A. Kaufman ___ Do epithets have a place in philosophical disputes? Is it useful, productive, or even appropriate to call people “racist,” “misogynist,” or “transphobic,” when engaged in p…
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Bits and Pieces – ‘Physical’; ‘Material’; ‘Exists’; ‘Real’
by Daniel A. Kaufman ___ Lately, I’ve been doing some work on Physicalism and social reality (1), suggesting that taking the latter seriously means that the former has to be false, and it seems to …
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Self-Expression, Knowledge and Value
by Mark English Attempts to express a comprehensive personal view of the world are doomed to failure. Each of us has a view of the world; some such views are more developed and plausible than other…
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Course Notes: A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic
by Daniel A. Kaufman It’s finals week, which means that the semester is at a close (and that I’m grading my ass off), and I thought it a good opportunity to get another Course Notes in, before summ…
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Brave New World, 1984, #MeToo, The New Journalism, and Paprikas Csirke
by Daniel A. Kaufman A remarkable IQ2 debate between novelist Wil Self and New Yorker essayist, Adam Gopnik, on the relative merits of Brave New World and 1984 in understanding our current world. I…
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