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What’s your strangest philosophical belief?

Timothy Burns (Baylor): Poetry and Philosophy: A New Look at an Old Quarrel. John Uebersax (Cal Poly): Divinus Plato: Is Plato a Religious Figure? Kevin Tobia (Yale): Does Religious Belief Infect Philosophical Analysis? From Nordic Wittgenstein Review, Soren Stenlund (Uppsala): The Origin of Symbolic Mathematics and the End of the Science of Quantity. Either cause and effect are the very glue of the cosmos, or they are a naive illusion due to insufficient math — but which? Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (Westminster): Epistemologies of Doubt. Richard Samuels (OSU) and Stephen P Stich (Rutgers): Irrationality: Philosophical Aspects. Is there a word more overused in philosophy nowadays than “intuition”? Bryan Frances (Fordham): Why the Vagueness Paradox is Amazing. Nilanjan Bhowmick (Delhi): Telling Philosophy Apart. Finn Janning on philosophy for everyday life. What’s your strangest philosophical belief? The think tank Berggruen Institute creates $1 million philosophy prize because “ideas matter”.