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Shadows of an Alternative Present
Matthew McKeever
Review of Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers by Cheryl Misak
Genre
Logic, Metaphysics
Length
3,000 words
Keywords
Pragmatism, mathematics, Wittgenstein, truth, reality
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Technology, Testimony, and The Black Lives Matter Movement
Moya Mapps (Yale University)
"Identity prejudicial stereotypes are those stereotypes that make us systematically underestimate the epistemic trustworthiness of an oppressed or marginalized group.”
Genre
Political Philosophy, Epistemology
Length
2,000 words
Keywords
Black Lives Matter, epistemic injustice, technology
On Having a Voice
Lisa Whiting (Birkbeck, University of London)
Review of Rebecca Solnit’s Recollections of My Non-Existence.
Genre
Feminist Philosophy
Length
1,500 words
Keywords
Feminism, credibility, biography, narrative
Shadows of an Alternative Present
Matthew McKeever
Review of Cheryl Misak’s Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess Of Powers
Genre
Logic, Metaphysics
Length
3,000 words
Keywords
Pragmatism, mathematics, Wittgenstein, truth, reality
The Goods of the Earthly City
Alexander Douglas
Review of Martin Hägglund's This Life.
Genre
Political Philosophy, Metaphysics
Length
2,500 words
Keywords
Religion, capitalism, Marx, Augustine, eternity, finitude
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Mortality Doesn't Make Us Free Either
Ed Gibney
"Clearly, survival is more fundamental than freedom. For without life, there is nothing to be free."
Genre
Metaphysics
Length
2,000 words
Keywords
Time, immortality, freedom
Time and Timelessness: Responses to Martin Hägglund's This Life
Martin Hägglund (Yale University) and Respondents
Responses by: Frederick Neuhouser (Columbia University), Lea Ypi (London School of Economics) and Jensen Suther (Yale University)
Genre
Political Philosophy, Metaphysics
Length
8,500 words
Keywords
Time, mortality, Marx, capitalism, religion
Moral Grandstanding and the Will to Power
Justin Tosi (Texas Tech University) & Brandon Warmke (Bowling Green State University)
"We like to believe that we are not only good people, but better than others, and this fact is confirmed again and again in psychological studies."
Genre
Moral Philosophy
Length
3,000 words
Keywords
Morality, politics, moral psychology, Nietzsche