Digressions&Impressions

On the latest controversy in the philosophical blogosphere.

[Over time I plan to phase out this blog at typepad. This post was first published at digressions.impressions.substack here. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber at ] At Leiterreports (h...

On the Hierarchies of Professional Philosophy

[Unlike most nearly all other Digressions, this essay was initially solicited and so lacks attention to my own participation and rewards in what I describe.--ES] Professional philosophy in the Anglophone world, and those areas that take...

On Participating in the PGR

Not long after I published this post, I was invited to participate in the PGR survey (funny how that goes). Despite the incisive, ongoing criticism, especially by Mitchell Aboulafia, Jessica Wilson, and John Protevi, I signed up as an ev...

Yes, but, we do need rankings.

Now that the future of PGR is hanging in the balance, some folk are thinking a future not just with multiple rankings (recall Weatherson and my response), but no philosophy rankings [HT Winsberg & Huebner on Facebook]. Several of my frie...

On the Carnap-Strawson debate and the soul of Analytical Philosophy during the Cold War

If the reader is shocked or offended by the two last-mentioned procedures, I hasten to assure him that they, occur, of course, only in the more barbarous regions, like America, where the sacrilege of tampering with the holy tradition o...