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Essays in slow philosophical writing.
Occasional pieces on philosophical method, logic, the discipline as it is practised in India, and the strange dignity of arguments that lead nowhere obvious.
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The Document That Decides: Why Your Writing Sample Matters More Than You Think
If you are applying to graduate school in philosophy, there is one document that will do more to determine your fate than any other. It is not your statement of purpose, your transcript, or your letters of recommendation…
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The Funded Door: Philosophy MA Programmes in North America That Pay You to Study
A persistent and damaging myth circulates among Indian philosophy students considering graduate study abroad: that a master's degree means debt. It is not true everywhere, and the exceptions matter enormously…
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On Why "If the Moon Is Made of Cheese, Then 2+2=4" Is Logically True (And Why That's Weird)
The study of logic is a strangely dignified form of absurdity. On the one hand, it is the grand attempt to formalise reasoning itself; on the other, it commits us to conclusions that any reasonable person would find unhinged…
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5 Myths About Philosophy We Need to Retire
Preferably before the next lecture starts. Yayoi Kusama's Pumpkin resists any single absolute meaning; much like syādvāda, it reminds us that what is most worth saying often refuses to be said only one way…
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SyātCast: Thinking Philosophy through Journalism
Hello, readers. We are starting something called the SyātCast. At its simplest, it might be described as a platform for philosophical writing — but we mean something more particular than that…
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