Policy in our time is made by cost-benefit analysis. Finance ministers and independent fiscal…
My friend Christoph Schuringa touched a real nerve with his Jacobin piece on analytic philosophy. What I took from his piece is, roughly, that analytic philosophy is bourgeois ideology. That’s to say, it is a research programme that ultimately serves the…
In the last post I questioned G.A. Cohen’s critique of the Labour Theory of Value, which comes in two parts: (1) the LTV involves a mistaken idea that labour creates value; (2) Marx’s theory of exploitation can be retained without the LTV.
As I was writing on Marx on value, a few analytic political philosophers recommended this essay to me: G.A. Cohen’s “The Labor Theory of Value and the Concept of Exploitation”.
In 1932 L. Susan Stebbing gave a wonderful presentation to the Aristotelian Society, on…
Medieval philosophers spoke of words being ‘imposed’ for things, either directly or by way of the…
Hao Wang’s second book on Gödel, A Logical Journey, explores a number of interesting…
It is accepted, even by more sympathetic readers than me, that Locke’s theory of inference leaves something to be desired.
In the Essay Concerning Human Understanding (4.17.4) we have:
To infer is nothing but by virtue…
