You woke up. There is no moral responsibility. (Kershnar) There are no material objects. (the best Bishop) There is no logic. (Cotnoir) There are no good reasons for anything. (David Miller) Time is not real. (McTaggart) There are no other people. (Jim Stone) There is no self.

Inference to the fastest explanation I could come up with that contradicts the beliefs of people I repudiate

Your paper engages with the relevant literature, makes a novel contribution, and is well written. It also solves the problem it sets out to address. However, it does not match my intuitions. Therefore, I vote for rejection.

(P1) If there are no moral facts, then Santa Claus does not know whether you have been good or bad. (P2) Santa Claus does know whether you have been good or bad. (C) Therefore, there are moral facts.

«One of the differences between analytic and nonanalytic philosophy has to do with the object of the philosopher's envy.»

Once at a conference, a PhD candidate in political science said he had never read Rawls’s A Theory of Justice and never intended to, on the grounds that it is merely *a* theory of justice, not *the* theory of justice.

in Danny Frederick’s style.

4 books I wanna read in 2026 Why is There Something Rather than Nothing (forthcoming CUP) A Philosophical History of the Concept (forthcoming CUP) The Epistemology of Grounding (forthcoming CUP, no book cover yet) The Routledge Handbook of Argumentation Theory, published