Policy of Truth (as a whole) is my website (i.e., Irfan Khawaja), but its blog is a group blog.  Right now, the blog technically has twelve bloggers, but Riesbeck, Long, Young, and the two Khawajas (Irfan and Suleman) tend to do most of the talking, with Boydstun and Potts occasionally chiming in.

Derrick Abdul-Hakim (“derrickabdulhakim83”), is in the final semester of the MA program in philosophy at San Francisco State University, and planning to attend the doctoral program in philosophy at the University of London, Birkbeck.

Gordon Barnes (“gbarnes14”), is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Brockport, and was for several years the Director of its Center for Philosophic Exchange.

Carrie-Ann Biondi was until 2020 an Associate Professor of Philosophy, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Marymount Manhattan College in NYC (2007-2020). From 2020-2022, she was an Adolescent Program Manager and Coach at Higher Ground Education. She’s currently Assistant Editor and Indexer with the Philosopher’s Information Center. She was also an editor at Reason Papers, and on the editorial staff of Social Philosophy & Policy. She lives in Orlando, Florida.

Alison Bowles (“ridiculous2017”) was, until her untimely death in March 2021, a licensed mental health counselor in private practice, with offices in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, and New York City. On moving to Toronto in the summer of 2020, she became a frequent guest on Business Talk Radio, discussing various issues in the theory and practice of mental health counseling. Her first broadcast was on July 6, 2020 and her last was on February 19, 2021. She maintained a personal blog housing some of her writing, and in her last days had created a Facebook page where her very last public thoughts may be found. Here’s an interview she did in 2019 on telemental health, and here is a brief biographical statement. (–IK, March 12, 2021). I intend to dedicate a page of the blog to Alison in the near future, featuring some of her best writings and photography, and my own writing about her. (IK–September 6, 2021).

Derek Bowman is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island. In addition to blogging here, he also runs the site Free Range Philosophers, which “hosts interviews of people with advanced training in philosophy who are either working outside of traditional academic jobs or engaged in philosophical outreach or other philosophical activities outside of the academic classroom.”

Stephen Boydstun (“guyau”) is an independent scholar (and former engineer) with interests in metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of science, and meta-ethics.  He blogs from northern Virginia.

John Davenport is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Peace and Justice Studies at Fordham University.

Suleman Khawaja is a hospitalist at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey. He received his BA in Political Science and Philosophy at Duke University, and his MD from the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. He did his residency in Internal Medicine at UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and now runs a private practice as an expert witness in medical matters. He blogs at PoT primarily on health care issues.

Roderick T. Long teaches philosophy at Auburn University; edits the Molinari Review; co-edits the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies; and blogs at Austro-Athenian Empire, Center for a Stateless Society, and Bleeding Heart Libertarians.

David Potts teaches philosophy at the City College of San Francisco.

David J. Riesbeck (“djr”) teaches literature, philosophy, history, and classical languages to bright high school students in the bright state of Arizona. He has also taught at Rice University, Dartmouth College, and the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a PhD in Classics. He is the author of Aristotle on Political Community (Cambridge 2016).

Gregory (“Greg”) Sadler is an independent scholar trained in philosophy. He is the President and Founder of ReasonIO, “a platform for putting philosophy into practice.” He’s taught at Ball State University, Fayetteville State University, and Marist College. He is the editor of Stoicism Today, and author of Reason Fulfilled by Revelation: The 1930s Christian Philosophy Debates in France.

Michael Young (“mlyoung57”) has interests in meta-ethics and moral psychology, and has done graduate work in philosophy at Brown University. He blogs from Providence, Rhode Island. (PoT’s Michael Young is not the American journalist of the same name who writes for The Daily Star in Beirut.)

The blog involves no overarching doctrinal, ideological, or political commitment beyond a commitment to truth. (Not does it require a commitment to any particular conception or theory of truth.) I’ve just invited a diverse group of co-bloggers with various interests, from various disciplines, etc. whom I expected to have interesting things to say about whatever interested them.

Our blogging crew is heavily male. If you’re interested in blogging for us, and think you can fix that, contact me at khawajaenator at gmail.

Comments:

There’s a glitch in the comments function.

You’ll need to register and get my approval to post your first comment. After that, I’ve set the site up so that you can comment at will. But it could take some time before I take a look at your first comment, or comment on anything you write. I generally try to respond to comments directed at stuff I’ve written, but there are no absolutes about it. I have a heavy teaching and editing schedule, so it’s sometimes tough for me to do all the blogging I’d like to do.

I generally find official “comment policies” uninformative and/or misleading. There’s no algorithmic set of rules that, if followed, makes for a good comment, or provides the sufficient conditions for the sort of post/comment that gets deleted. Here’s the best I can do in that respect (omitting some tacit, common sense qualifications to each):

Sometimes WordPress filters out comments as spam when it isn’t. If your comment doesn’t go through, it’s much more likely that there’s some technical glitch than that I’m deliberately filtering you out.  If you’re in this predicament, contact me at khawajaenator at gmail. I reserve the right to delete comments that are abusive, obscene, desperately off-topic, spam-like, or just plain crazy. I tend to be reluctant about doing that, but I will if need be.

Irfan Khawaja

Last revised: January 24, 2023

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