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Tractatus Translatus
Legend has it that Damion Searls learnt Norwegian in order to translate Jon Fosse, whom he had read in German and identified as a genius. Searls…
Apr 20
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Kieran Setiya
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Reader's Digest: April 13, 2024
This week, a miscellany of online essays. In The Atlantic: I. P. Rosenbaum on the violinist Nicholas Kitchen’s attempt to decode Beethoven’s private…
Apr 13
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What is Stand-Up Comedy?
According to stereotype, analytic philosophers love nothing more than analyzing concepts, filling the ellipsis of x is F if and only if … with…
Apr 6
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Reader's Digest: March 30, 2024
I’ve been intrigued for a while by Carlos Eire’s new book, They Flew: A History of the Impossible, which “argues” that we should take medieval…
Mar 30
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Poetry is when...
What is poetry? Emily Dickinson answered, in a letter: If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry…
Mar 23
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Reader's Digest: March 16, 2024
The most arresting book I have read in recent months is Lara Pawson’s unclassifiable non-fiction, Spent Light. I’m not sure I could explain what it’s…
Mar 16
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The Plague
This spring marks the four-year anniversary of a world-historical event. I mean, of course, our spontaneous global reading group on Albert Camus’s The…
Mar 9
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February 2024
Josiah Carberry Day
I first encountered Josiah S. Carberry, Professor of Psychoceramics at Brown University, in Joel Feinberg’s Harmless Wrongdoing, the fourth volume of…
Feb 29
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Practical Wisdom
No post this week, but a link to an essay published elsewhere: on philosophy as a form of self-help, at The Point: Philosophy is an abstract field of…
Feb 24
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Reviewer #2
The philosopher Neil Levy’s recent book about peer review is more than a book about peer review. Its first half is about bullshit, interpretive charity…
Feb 17
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Reader's Digest: February 10, 2024
I’ve tried to avoid writing about generative AI—with some success—but it’s more or less impossible not to read about it. I make no claim to…
Feb 10
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Ontological Airbnb
The God Desire opens, appropriately enough, with a quotation from a non-existent book. Written by Virginia Brook, a fictional atheist in the play God’s…
Feb 3
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