Philosophical Dictionary

Edmund Gettier published two papers and one review in his career, and one three-page paper showed that a justified true belief can still miss knowledge. Sixty years later the problem has a new setting: feeds sorted for each of us. Does the filter bubble make lucky truths the norm, and what does the research say?

A  philosopher's toolkit for empowering critique of the powerful through the lens of Mel Brooks' "The Producers" and Hannah Arendt's concept of the "banality of evil." Though humor and satire you, too, can speak up, knowing everyday evil is only human.

Orwell is quoted by the left, the right and the people selling memes about both. In 1946 he wrote that his serious work since 1936 was against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism. Then he reviewed Hayek, praised England and handed the Foreign Office a list of names. So where does he really sit on the compass?