"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."
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"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."
Chi Rainer Bornfree
- 20 min
"Artificial Fiction": An Essay by Chi Rainer Bornfree (Keywords: AI; Technology; Art; Literature)
"It will be hard to shake free of the sense that to co-write with AI is to imbue the system with spirit. "
George Yancy
- 18 min
"Charles Mills: On Seeing and Naming the Whiteness of Philosophy": An Essay by George Yancy
"Charles Mills’ work brilliantly and unhesitatingly engages white philosophy by stripping it of an ideological cover."
Tim Elmo Feiten
- 8 min
"Jakob von Uexküll’s Concept of Umwelt" by Tim Elmo Feiten (Keywords: Biology; Metaphysics; Animals)
"Uexküll vehemently rejected the position that organisms are merely highly complex machines and can be fully explained in mechanistic terms"
Donovan Irven
- 18 min
"Beyond Free Will": An Essay by Donovan Irven (Keywords: Freedom; Existentialism; Neurophilosophy)
"Freedom cannot be a property of the will, for freedom is the ontological condition that makes willing possible."
Jana Bacevic
- 11 min
"Philosophy Herself": An Essay by Jana Bacevic (Keywords: Beauvoir; Feminism; Lived Experience)
"Philosophy written by men gets positioned as philosophy; philosophy written by women gets positioned as feminist philosophy."
Jeff Malpas
- 17 min
A Place for Thinking": An Essay by Jeff Malpas (Keywords: Solitude; Place; Descartes; Finitude)
"It is in its situatedness, in its being placed, that thinking finds its very possibility and its proper ground."
Alexandre Leskanich
- 13 min
"Cosmic Invalidity": An Essay by Alexandre Leskanich (Keywords: Cioran; Nothingness; Pessimism)
"If Nietzsche was the great contrarian of the nineteeth century, Cioran, to a less famous extent, is the great contrarian of the twentieth."
Dan Taylor
- 16 min
"On Chess": An Essay by Dan Taylor (Keywords: Games; Free Will; Spinoza; George Eliot)
"The history of chess and philosophy has yet to be written. And yet the history of the latter is replete with references to the former."
Thomas Bartscherer
- 13 min
"Thinking Out Of Order": An Essay by Thomas Bartscherer (Keywords: Mind; Arendt; MetaphilosophyMind)
"When we think, we 'withdraw' from the world of appearances, in order to make present to the mind what is absent from the senses."
Naomi Waltham-Smith
- 15 min
"Take it or Leave it": An Essay by Naomi Waltham-Smith (Keywords: Academic Freedom; Free Speech)
"What is it that we defend under the banner of “academic freedom”? At what possible costs?"
Elvira Basevich
- 11 min
"The Philosophical Legacy of Charles W. Mills" by Elvira Basevich (Keywords: Race; Liberalism)
"Death brings in its wake a peculiar sense of aloneness in which one loses the image of one’s self that another held."
Chi Rainer Bornfree
- 16 min
"Liberating Plato's Prisoners" by Chi Rainer Bornfree (Keywords: Metaphysics; Decolonization)
"To leave the cave is to abandon something that matters deeply: politics, the material world, art and poetry and beauty."
"In Praise of Co-Authoring": An Essay by Matyáš Moravec and Peter West
"When it comes to research, the popular conception of lone scientific geniuses is off the mark; scientific progress requires collaboration."
Lewis R. Gordon
- 20 min
"Racialization and Human Reality": An Essay by Lewis R. Gordon (Keywords: Race; Gender; Identity)
"To speak of the reality of race is not to speak of it in ontological terms as one would a chair, stone, or tautological algorithm."
Amy Allen
- 12 min
"Why Psychoanalysis?" by Amy Allen (Keywords: rationality; Philosophy of Science; Freud; Foucault)
Artwork by Joanna Borkowska Philosophy, according to classical metaphysicians, begins in wonder: why is there something rather than...
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