"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."
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."
"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."
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."
Peter West
- 11 min
"Otherworldly Science: Margaret Cavendish’s Critique of the Experimental Method" by Peter West
"The study of 'other worlds' can only be worthwhile if it ultimately helps us to better navigate the world which we currently inhabit."
Amie L. Thomasson
- 16 min
"Philosophy as Conceptual Engineering " by Amie L. Thomasson (Keywords: Metaphysics; Metaphilosophy)
"Change the concepts, and you can change the inferences, and in turn you can change the social, legal, and even scientific practices."
Savannah L. Pearlman
- 13 min
"Mutual Aid and a Pluralistic Account of Solidarity": An Essay by Savannah L. Pearlman
"There is something odd about the notion that merely sharing an identity feature with someone else is a sufficient basis for solidarity."
Serene J. Khader
- 15 min
"What Should Feminists Want from a Conception of Autonomy?" An Essay by Serene J. Khader
"Relational conceptions of autonomy end up licensing various types of paternalism to which feminists should object."
Catherine Wilson
- 13 min
"Was it Always True that Slavery was Wrong?": An Essay by Catherine Wilson
"If there is to be learning and progress, then the unit that has learned or made progress has to be seen as endowed with a history."
Maria Baghramian
- 17 min
"The Politics of Relativism": An Essay by Maria Baghramian (Keywords: Truth, Rationality; Ideology)
"To accept that there are many equally valid perspectives on values, justifications and the world does not logically necessitate tolerance."
Maximilian Gregor Hepach
- 14 min
"Is Climate Real?" An Essay by Maximilian Gregor Hepach (Keywords: Planet; Weather; Phenomenology)
"The concepts of interest to philosophers are often, at first sight, the ones that seem the most trivial."
Avram Alpert
- 20 min
"There Is Nothing Better than Good Enough" by Avram Alpert (Keywords: Wisdom; Freedom; Cooperation)
"Human progress should not be defined in strictly material or spiritual terms, but in our capacity to unite the two."
Rivka Weinberg
- 7 min
"Death is Overrated": An Essay by Rivka Weinberg (Keywords: Time; Meaning; Religion; Mortality)
"Regarding meaning, death just does what time would do eventually anyway, but perhaps more mercifully."
"Have We Finally Become Ghosts in the Machine?" An Essay by Brad Evans & Chantal Meza
"We have been rightly suspicious about the possibility of technological enslavement and how we may end up authors of our own extinction."
Carl Mika
- 12 min
"Where Do We Stand When We Know? Mātauranga Māori and its Translation as 'Science'" by Carl Mika
"Methods of thinking and observing are tightly implicated with wellbeing – not just for the human entity but also the non-human world."
Christopher Belshaw
- 12 min
"What is the Point of Wild Animals?" by Christopher Belshaw (Keywords: Ethics; death; Personhood)
"Contrary to widespread thinking, it is farm animals rather than those left to fend for themselves in the wild that have the better lives."
Sophie Grace Chappell
- 15 min
"Transformation and Immortality: Introducing Dante’s Divina Commedia" by Sophie-Grace Chappell
"Dante’s Paradise is – unchangingly – a place of infinite change; of change in who I am, among other things."
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