We humans spend a remarkable amount of time, money, and energy to benefit others, including family, friends, and strangers. Why do we do it? Do we ever care about others for their sakes and not simply for our own? Is our ultimate goal always and exclusively self-benefit, or are we capable of caring about another person’s welfare as an ultimate goal? These questions are asking about the existence of altruistic motivation in humans.

Lewis Powell created this as a resource for Early Modern Historians

This is simply brilliant...

It's job market season again, and I suspect we're in for another good round over at Philosophy Smoker

A senior philosopher criticizes recent SEP entries...the discussion on this should be interesting...

A must read for anyone thinking about contemporary challenges to philosophical methodology

Good discussion of a possible problem with current Xphi methods.

Ralph Wedgwood argues for the interesting claim: "We would be much better off if we eliminated the term ‘evidence’ from fundamental epistemology entirely."