Philosophy Bites Daily

Crowdsourcing Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham 'would have been delighted by the Internet'. Read more...

The Future of Science and Society

Edge has an archive of top thinkers attempting to answer key questions about where we are heading and what we can do about it. Read more...

Cyber-Cesspools and Free Speech

Brian Leiter makes a case for reducing the visibility of offensive cyber-cesspools, those websites, blogs, and chatrooms where demeaning and humiliating comments are  posted. But would his solution work? Read more...

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason online

Norman Kemp-Smith's original translation of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is available online in convenient form for scholarly use. Ideal for checking details of the transcendental deduction from your iPhone. Read more...

Zizek, Wikileaks, and the Joker

The Joker wants to reveal the truth beneath the mask; so does Julian Assange. Does that make him a villain? The philosopher-joker Slavoj Zizek riffs on the parallels between the moral ambiguities of The Dark Knight Batman film and the shameless cynicism of the global order and its reactions to Wikileaks disclosures. Read more...

Philosophical Humour

David Chalmers has a page of links to jokes, songs, and satire about Philosophy. As with all aspects of Philosophy, the standard is variable. Read more...

Frank Ramsey

The Cambridge mathematician and philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903-30) made a remarkable contribution to philosophy in only 26 years of life. Read more...

The Architectonic of the Fallacy

Whether you agree or disagree with the taxonomy, there's no denying the elegance of this structural representation of our reasoning errors. Read more...

Change Your Mind

We know we can change our bodies, but we can also make significant choices about how our brains develop according to Oliver Sacks (who has a cool website here). Neuroplasticity, the way the brain adapts to new functions, is the key. Read more...

Denis Dutton's website

The philosopher of art Denis Dutton died a few days ago. To get a glimpse of why so many tributes are flowing in, explore his personal webpage (not the more famous www.aldaily.com that he created and edited). He once described weblogs as most like commonplace books (a kind of intellectual scrapbook). Here you'll find everything from his 1976 interview with Jorge Luis Borges to his thoughts on writing, deconstruction, Martha Argerich (including an illicitly recorded concert), and, of course, evolutionary aesthetics. Read more...

Early Modern Philosophy - key texts paraphrased

Jonathan Bennett's paraphrases of a wide range of classic philosophical texts are surprisingly good. Machiavelli, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume, Reid, Rousseau, Kant, Mill, Wollstonecraft are all here. Very few people would be able to carry off the task of putting these authors' work into intelligible prose while remaining close to the original. This shouldn't work, but it does. Read more...

How interesting it is to think about the great questions...

Jonathan Glover has spent much of his life thinking, reading, writing and talking about philosophy. His website is a fascinating anthology of his own and others' ideas. Read more...

Was this inevitable?

Ted Honderich has a website with links to numerous articles on free will and determinism including classic excerpts from Thomas Hobbes and David Hume alongside more recent contributions (many from Honderich)  Read more...