Critical Thinking Blogs

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• Kant’s claustrophobic metaphysics — Hot off the press: my review of Marcus Willaschek's Kant: A Revolution in Thinking appears in the Claremont Review of Bo
• On the adoption of logical principles — A one-day Kripke workshop at York reignited my fascination with the adoption problem in logic. What the Tortoise Said to
• What is Probabilism? — Curious about what is Probabilism and what the probability axioms for credences really demand? In this post I question t
• Stop generating, start thinking — Feeling uneasy about LLM-generated code? After years using Copilot and Claude as spicy autocomplete, I argue we should s
• Mental Laziness — Crazy how AI resets yesterday's thinking every day. I worry less about machines destroying us and more about how AI feed
• Chairman Mao’s Guide to Writing History Essays — What happens when Mao becomes a model for student essays? A slightly tongue-in-cheek look at revolutionary historiograph
• Somewhere Between Mischief and Extortion — Where’s the line between cheeky opportunism and outright exploitation? I’m exploring that grey area through recent event
• Every Yes Is Also a No — Unpacks the idea that each “yes” to a purchase or commitment is also a “no” to something else, nudging readers to say ye
• If You Don't Eat Your Meat, You Can't Have Any Pudding! — Pink Floyd lyrics remix prison food coercion, authority absurdity. Satire on carceral control through mundane daily ritu
• Sometimes nerds just have to explain something — An affectionate, self-aware look at the urge many technically minded people have to explain things not out of arrogance,