David Papineau
Professor of Philosophy, King's College London, & Graduate Center CUNY
David Papineau is professor of philosophy at King’s College London and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. He has been president of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association. He is the author of Philosophical Devices (2012) and Knowing the Score (2017).
Written by David Papineau
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Knowledge
Knowledge is crude
Far from being a touchstone of the truth, knowledge is a stone-age concept that harms our dealings with the modern world
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Philosophy of science
Chess is not a sport but a game. So what’s the difference?
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Genetics
Runs in the family
Cricketing dynasties seem to imply that talent is genetic. Yet the evidence from other sports queers the pitch
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