"A Particularly Wonderful Human Being": Linda Martín alcoff on Charles W. Mills
"We had a really egalitarian relationship, and I have not found that to be the case too often with male academics."
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Minna Salami
- 9 min
"Desire": An Essay by Minna Salami (Keywords: Solitude; Sexuality; Oppression; Feminism)
"To the extent that desire is erotic, what would theories of desire be if women were makers, rather than bearers, of meaning?"
Drew Leder
- 15 min
"The Absent Body (and Beyond)" by Drew Leder (Keywords: Dualism; Mind-Body; Self; Illness; Healing)
"The Platonic/Cartesian formulation captures an abiding element of human experience; the body can be a prison from which we long to be free"
Akeel Bilgrami
- 11 min
"What is Alienation?" by Akeel Bilgrami (Keywords: Politics; Social Contract; Marx; Locke)
"What I will seek, then, is to uncover something about the underlying mentality that exemplifies the ideal of an unalienated life."
Kristina Lepold
- 6 min
"Recognition": An Essay by Kristina Lepold (Keywords: Freedom; Agency; Personhood; Hegel; Honneth)
"Recognition is not just a moral or ethical concept, but also, and perhaps primarily, a political concept."
Ellen Clarke
- 13 min
"The Post-Human Body": by Ellen Clarke (Keywords: Biology; Microbiome; Embodiment; Selfhood)
"There is a deep-rooted folk concept of the human organism, which assumes that our bodies are pure and uncontaminated by outside matter."
Karmen MacKendrick
- 14 min
"But First, Nothing": by Karmen MacKendrick (Keywords: Metaphysics; Theology; Ontology; Kabbalah)
"Before anything can be, there must be made nothing; prior to this contraction, nothing is not – where, after all, would it be?"
Vincent Lloyd
- 7 min
"Philosophy Born of Struggle" by Vincent Lloyd (Keywords: Black Philosophy; Old Age; Moods; Hope)
"We must ask what it means to do philosophy when we expect that the next generation will be worse off, in many ways, than our generation."
Hanneke Grootenboer
- 11 min
"Visual Thinking: Art as a Form of Thought": Hanneke Grootenboer (Keywords: Art; Aesthetics; Space)
"If one needs a dwelling place to start thinking, an artwork can serve as a kind of shelter where thinking can take place. "
Nathan Oseroff-Spicer
- 16 min
"Everything You Love Has Gone Woke": Nathan Oseroff-Spicer reviews Left Is Not Woke by Susan Neiman
"Without clear descriptions, definitions, or examples of “woke”, it may seem Neiman is battling a series of straw-people."
Nima Bassiri
- 8 min
"Brain": An Essay by Nima Bassiri (Keywords: Neuroscience; Selfhood; Ontology; Power; Governance)
"The primacy of the brain functions as a something of a barometer for how we have come to be governed."
Eva Meijer
- 17 min
"Deep Listening and Democracy: Political Listening to Fellow Citizens and Other Beings": Eva Meijer
"Who can speak is a fundamental political question – both in the meaning of who is allowed to speak, and who is seen as a speaking being."
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