#Philosophers

John Tasioulas

JTasioulas

Does our political culture need philosophy? Undoubtedly. But not so much the refinements of rival theories that excite philosophers, but rather the basics we take for granted. Even simple distinctions

John Schwenkler

johnschwenkler

This post helped to clarify for me one of the reasons why I find the increasingly partisan atmosphere among many academic philosophers, and the tendency to charge one another with

Whatifalthist

whatifalthist

In the ancient world, part of being a philosopher was living the life of a philosopher, or being virtuous, brave and the like. Now, philosopher’s just have to say pretty

Marcus Cunningham

MarcusC31391111

I think there is a key distinction that needs to be made between physicalism and materialism. Physicalism is the philosophical position which holds that all there is ontologically is physical

John

ErrorTheorist

Respond to this tweet with early career philosophers whose work we should follow. feel free to self-promote on this thread

Existential Comics

existentialcoms

Philosophers in quarantine:Schopenhauer: A man can be himself only so long as he is aloneSartre: If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad companyThoreau: I never found a companion

David Papineau

davidpapineau

I can’t help feeling, @TheBJPS @StathisPsillos @WayneMyrvold, that we’re losing the wood for the trees in all these details about which positivist said what and when about unobservables. In truth,

T. Greer

Scholars_Stage

Patrick Daneen has this book where he argues that a bunch of enlightenment philosophers created this thing called liberalism and then unleashed it cruelly on an unsuspecting world. He hopes

Lubna

LubnaaSabir1

There was a time Islamic intellectual culture had some of the greatest critical thinkers, philosophers, inventors known to man. Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā 854 CE – 925 CE. Famed

Dr. Johnathan Flowers wants to see academia fall.

shengokai

Right, so. Let me talk about the disciplinary implications of Singer's statement here: @Helenreflects has a good meditation on this at the Philosopher's Cocoon, linked below. I largely agree with

ChubsTheRapper

chubstherapper

Gusto lang namin makatulong sa pagbibigay ng words of wisdom from our great PhilosophersA thread.1. Kung tapos na, tapos na. Maging grateful ka sa mga lessons na natutunan mo. Sabi

Aabhas Maldahiyar 🇮🇳

Aabhas24

1/n They praise Greek Philosophers all the time but they praised India day & night.Few quotes"In India I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering

Tw¡tter CEO-Elect Nicholas Frechen 🇺🇸⚖🍿

NFrechen

Here's why (they) love gold. The philosophers stone(monoatomic gold). In Egypt they called it MFKTZ. It was made at the temple of Hawthorne at Mt Sinai. "Moses burnt the golden calf in a

Cord Schmelzle

CordSchmelzle

Philosophers: Paternalism is defined as (the supposed wrong of) interfering with A's liberty for A's benefit. But what's the term for (the supposed wrong of) prematurally interfering with A's liberty

Kate Kirkpatrick

philosofemme

It's All Saints Day today, so here's the Spanish saint Simone de Beauvoir claimed was "one of the only women to have lived the human condition for herself, in total

Salvador

michael_klump_

Reading @acgrayling‘s The History of Philosophy and thought I really wouldn’t like to hang out with the ancient philosophers: eg, Pythagoras, who created a cult around him and died because