I meant to post this on Good Friday. It came that day from Ken Myers, the creator and host of the indispensable Mars Hill Audio Journal. I post it with his permission: Your post (prepared yesterday) ...

Joe Nocera at the NYT has a good column up this morning about the Amazon-Hachette dispute. He concedes that Amazon is behaving like a bully, and recognizes that Amazon has a staggering degree of power ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a ...

I am a proponent of nominalism when it comes to religion. Or, to put it another way, instead of a religion being a Platonic category with precise and specific boundaries, I think a more accurate model ...

Nominalism is the idea that universals like “beauty” or “justice” are just names, not real things. This documentary-style explainer breaks it down in simple terms. Supreme Court delivers major blow to ...

Emilio Roma and Sid B. Thomas, Jr. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research was founded in 1940 by Marvin Farber, who edited it for forty years. Since 1980 it has been at Brown, where it has been ...

Understand nominalism in just 2 minutes a philosophical stance that denies the existence of universal forms outside our minds. This simplified breakdown clarifies how nominalists see concepts like ...

Currency nominalism is a legal principle of keeping the amount of a debt obligation fixed despite fluctuations in the money’s purchasing power or exchange rate. According to this principle, the ...