Category: Humor

  • Who knew A.J. Ayer was such a badass? I see a blockbuster movie in the future.

  • This funny sketch, performed by John Cleese and Jonathan Miller, nicely illustrates the common stereotype of the absentminded, detached, and eccentric philosopher.         Is this stereotype bad for philosophy (as a profession)? If so, what can/should we do about it?

  • I came across this unpublished manuscript posted by Tamler Sommers the other day at Philpapers. It's entitled, "Free Will and Experimental Philosophy: An Intervention", and it's a real hoot.  Yet another biting (though potentially productive, and at any rate very funny) critique in what seems to be a rapidly escalating conflict between "experimentalists" and "traditionalists."…

  • If you'll allow, something a bit more lighthearted in the midst of all this job market doom. This has probably done the rounds before, but I just came across it. Since I'm currently working on a second revision of a paper that was sent out to a *different* referee after the first revision, I can…