"The Universality of Non-Belonging" by Todd McGowan (Keywords: Inclusivity; Identity; Film Studies)
"Inclusivity sees non-belonging as the contingent product of an unjust order that it strives to eliminate."
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Jensen Suther
- 10 min
"The Post-History of Alienation" by Jensen Suther (Keywords: Marx; Capitalism; Eudaimonia; Freedom)
"Under capitalism, politics consists in debating the general interest as a means to surreptitiously advancing one’s own special interest."
Joshua Habgood-Coote
- 11 min
"Better Work" by Joshua Habgood-Coote (Keywords: Reality TV; Gig Economy; Manual Labour; Anti-Work)
"While even deskilled work requires complex capacities, we shouldn’t think that these kinds of work are skilled in the full-fat sense."
Finn Mackay
- 9 min
"Queer" by Finn Mackay (Keywords: Feminism; Activism; Heteronormativity; Gender; Sexuality)
"At such a fraught political moment, it is worth reflecting on the fact that to be queer is to be strange and difficult to categorise."
"Madness" by Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed (Keywords: Identity; Personhood; rationality; Recognition)
"Philosophy needs to reckon with the part it has played, and continues to play, in the epistemic and normative exclusion of madness."
Kieran Setiya
- 8 min
"Temperament": An Essay by Kieran Setiya (Keywords: Self-Expression; Emotion; Truth; Epistemology)
"If philosophy aspires to knowledge, aren’t philosophers bound to deny that temperaments, rather than arguments, determine what they think?"
Peter West
- 6 min
"On the 'Cancellation' of Berkeley" by Peter West (Keywords: History; Education; Culture Wars)
"It may be that Berkeley is emerging as something of a figurehead for a particular stance in the so-called 'culture wars'."
Andrew Stewart
- 12 min
"The Roles of the Political Philosopher" by Andrew Stewart (Keywords: Metaphilosophy; Theory; Truth)
"Conceiving of political philosophy as somewhat like a religion helps one attain a synoptic view of its place in human history."
Carrie Jenkins
- 9 min
"Love" by Carrie Jenkins (Keywords: Normativity; Eudaimonia; Marriage; Socio-Economic Status)
"To love eudaimonically is to love with good spirits: with supportive community, with help from friends, and so on."
"The Future of the History of Philosophy" by Josh Platzky Miller and Lea Cantor
"We should abandon the idea of a 'Western Philosophy' and re-examine the history of philosophy without its distorting effects."
"Bodymind" by Joel Michael Reynolds (Keywords: Phenomenology; Embodiment; Disability; Care)
"We still judge the worth of a person, and even entire groups, based on their bodies. We still do so to the point of death."
Mel Andrews
- 8 min
"Philosophy in the Trenches and Laboratory Benches of Science": An Essay by Mel Andrews
"Philosophers are trained in the kind of abstract critical reasoning that is problematically absent from the sciences today."
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