What is the Point of Wild Animals?
"Contrary to widespread thinking, it is farm animals rather than those left to fend for themselves in the wild that have the better lives."
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Sophie Grace Chappell
- 15 min
Transformation and Immortality: Introducing Dante’s Divina Commedia
"Dante’s Paradise is – unchangingly – a place of infinite change; of change in who I am, among other things."
Chiara T. Ricciardone
- 20 min
ARTIFICIAL FICTION
"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
"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
"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 Alternative Paradigm in Existentialism
"Freedom cannot be a property of the will, for freedom is the ontological condition that makes willing possible."
Jana Bacevic
- 11 min
PHILOSOPHY HERSELF
"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
"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: E. M. CIORAN AND THE CONTAGION OF NOTHINGNESS
"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
"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
I A. A violent order is a disorder; and B. A great disorder is an order. These Two things are one. —Wallace Stevens...
Naomi Waltham-Smith
- 14 min
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...
Elvira Basevich
- 11 min
The Philosophical Legacy of Charles W. Mills
"Death brings in its wake a peculiar sense of aloneness in which one loses the image of one’s self that another held."
Chiara Ricciardone
- 15 min
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
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...
Lewis R. Gordon
- 20 min
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...
Amy Allen
- 12 min
Why Psychoanalysis?
Artwork by Joanna Borkowska Philosophy, according to classical metaphysicians, begins in wonder: why is there something rather than...
Nima Bassiri
- 16 min
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...
Mladen Dolar
- 14 min
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...
Michael Marder
- 5 min
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...