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    Jakob von Uexküll’s Concept of Umwelt
    Tim Elmo Feiten
    • 8 min
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    Jakob von Uexküll’s Concept of Umwelt

    "Uexküll vehemently rejected the position that organisms are merely highly complex machines and can be fully explained in mechanistic terms"
    Beyond Free Will: An Alternative Paradigm in Existentialism
    Donovan Irven
    • 18 min
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    Beyond Free Will: An Alternative Paradigm in Existentialism

    "Freedom cannot be a property of the will, for freedom is the ontological condition that makes willing possible."
    PHILOSOPHY HERSELF
    Jana Bacevic
    • 11 min
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    PHILOSOPHY HERSELF

    "Philosophy written by men gets positioned as philosophy; philosophy written by women gets positioned as feminist philosophy."
    A PLACE FOR THINKING
    Jeff Malpas
    • 17 min
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    A PLACE FOR THINKING

    "It is in its situatedness, in its being placed, that thinking finds its very possibility and its proper ground."
    COSMIC INVALIDITY: E. M. CIORAN AND THE CONTAGION OF NOTHINGNESS
    Alexandre Leskanich
    • 13 min
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    COSMIC INVALIDITY: E. M. CIORAN AND THE CONTAGION OF NOTHINGNESS

    To his later chagrin, Emil Mihai Cioran was born in Rășinari, Romania, in 1911. His father Emilian was an Orthodox priest, while his...
    ON CHESS
    Dan Taylor
    • 15 min
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    ON CHESS

    Sweet lord, you play me false. (Miranda, in Shakespeare’s The Tempest) ​ In the last year, chess has grown enormously in popularity...
    THINKING OUT OF ORDER
    Thomas Bartscherer
    • 13 min
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    THINKING OUT OF ORDER

    I ​ A. A violent order is a disorder; and B. A great disorder is an order. These Two things are one. —Wallace Stevens...
    TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT:  THE POLITICAL AND EPISTEMIC EFFECTS OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM
    Naomi Waltham-Smith
    • 14 min
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    TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT: THE POLITICAL AND EPISTEMIC EFFECTS OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM

    On 27 April 2021, a political representative in a parliamentary committee called on an education minister to do more so that academics...
    The Philosophical Legacy of Charles W. Mills
    Elvira Basevich
    • 11 min
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    The Philosophical Legacy of Charles W. Mills

    Artwork by Joanna Borkowska In her Preface to the majestic novel Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison describes the memory of her father as her...
    Liberating Plato's Prisoners
    Chiara Ricciardone
    • 15 min
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    Liberating Plato's Prisoners

    "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
    Matyáš Moravec and Peter West
    • 9 min
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    In Praise of Co-Authoring

    This article is written in the first-person plural. In other words, you’re going to see the word “we” a lot and you’ll be presented with...
    Racialization and Human Reality
    Lewis R. Gordon
    • 20 min
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    Racialization and Human Reality

    Artwork by Nicole Franchy A few years ago I came upon a controversy regarding an article, “In Defense of Transracialism,” by the...
    Why Psychoanalysis?
    Amy Allen
    • 12 min
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    Why Psychoanalysis?

    Artwork by Joanna Borkowska Philosophy, according to classical metaphysicians, begins in wonder: why is there something rather than...
    The Force of Scientific Authority
    Nima Bassiri
    • 16 min
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    The Force of Scientific Authority

    Artwork by Melody Overstreet In the years leading up to the 1975 publication of Against Method, Paul Feyerabend rehearsed many of the...
    The Future of Authority?
    Mladen Dolar
    • 14 min
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    The Future of Authority?

    Artwork by jc lenochan Hannah Arendt starts off her famous essay “What is authority?” by immediately translating the title question into...
    When Viruses Help
    Michael Marder
    • 5 min
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    When Viruses Help

    We’ve all heard about helpful gut bacteria that play an active role in human and animal digestion. It is the perfect example of...
    The Art of Nothing
    Joanna Borkowska
    • 7 min
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    The Art of Nothing

    Artwork by Joanna Borkowska The idea of nothingness is one of the most confounding mysteries thinkers face. For millennia, the greatest...
    Epistemic Autonomy and the Free Nose Guy Problem
    Jana Bacevic
    • 16 min
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    Epistemic Autonomy and the Free Nose Guy Problem

    Artwork by Joanna Borkowska “Post-truth” seems to be among the few welcome casualties of the Covid-19 pandemic. Pronounced Oxford...
    “Having” Children: The Choice between Procreation and Adoption
    Veromi Arsiradam and Adam Ferner
    • 18 min
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    “Having” Children: The Choice between Procreation and Adoption

    Artwork by Joanna Borkowska Over the last two decades, there has been increasing engagement in western analytic philosophy with ethical...
    Nothing Matters
    Bret W. Davis
    • 28 min
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    Nothing Matters

    Artwork by Joanna Borkowska Perhaps the essence of nihilism consists in not taking the question of the nothing seriously. — Martin...
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