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It’s a Postrealist World

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Logic and the Linguistic Turn

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Up Against the Grammar Police

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In Defence of Post-Truth

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The March of Truth

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Rebecca Roache, David Maclean

Rebecca Roache On Swearing and Philosophy

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Meaning, Minds and Mother Tongues

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What's Metaphysics All About?

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Alessandro Ferrara

The Paradox of Authenticity

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Issue 62: Try again, fail again, fail better

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Paula Erizanu, Philip Kitcher

Are Celebrity Scientists Just Memes?

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Kristin Andrews

Can There Be Belief Without Language?

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Simon Blackburn

What Is Truth? Four Different Answers

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An irrational world

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Performativity and Black Lives Matter

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Why do we lie?

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Santiago Zabala

The philosophy of warnings

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Post-realism

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Timothy Williamson

Politics, truth and self-reference

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In defence of post-realism

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This is the only possible world

Simon Glendinning

Beyond the analytic / continental divide

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Rorty revisited

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Antirealism and the analytic-continental split

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Truth isn't correspondence with the facts

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Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100

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The Return of Idealism: Russell vs Hegel

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Common sense leads philosophy astray

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Filippo Contesi, Louise Chapman, Constantine Sandis

Analytic philosophy has a language problem

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Elin Danielsen Huckerby

After Metaphysics: Rorty and American Pragmatism