Brian Leiter

"Perhaps more striking is the accuracy of many of Marx’s best-known qualitative predictions about the tendencies of capitalist development: capitalism continues to conquer the globe; its effect is the …"

"Nehamas invokes Nietzsche’s talk of the “eternal basic text of homo natura” as evidence of aestheticism--the view, recall, that “texts can be interpreted equally well in vastly different and deeply in…"

"Continental morality critics are plainly not without ethical views of their own—namely, views, broadly, about the good life for human beings—since it is on the basis of these views that they criticize…"

"If we can recover the naturalistic ambitions of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, … philosophy becomes relevant because the world—riven as it is with hypocrisy and concealment—desperately needs a hermeneuti…"

"Edmund Gettier convinced most philosophers that the received wisdom of millennia about the concept of knowledge was mistaken: “knowledge” was not simply a matter of having a justified, true belief … A…"

"Millions of people profess knowledge of the reality of God, claiming miracles witnessed or voices heard. If what really causes them to believe that they know of God’s existence is an unconscious, infa…"

"The Marxian theory of ideology predicts that the ruling ideas in any well functioning society will be ideas that promote the interests of the ruling class in that society, i.e., the class that is econ…"

"Just as Darwinian adaptationists assume that every biological phenomenon must be explained in terms of natural selection , so too Nietzsche assumes that whatever explains “life” must also explain thes…"