"There is something odd about the notion that merely sharing an identity feature with someone else is a sufficient basis for solidarity."

"Relational conceptions of autonomy end up licensing various types of paternalism to which feminists should object."

"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."

"To accept that there are many equally valid perspectives on values, justifications and the world does not logically necessitate tolerance."

"The concepts of interest to philosophers are often, at first sight, the ones that seem the most trivial."

"Human progress should not be defined in strictly material or spiritual terms, but in our capacity to unite the two."

"Regarding meaning, death just does what time would do eventually anyway, but perhaps more mercifully."

"We have been rightly suspicious about the possibility of technological enslavement and how we may end up authors of our own extinction."

"Methods of thinking and observing are tightly implicated with wellbeing – not just for the human entity but also the non-human world."

"Contrary to widespread thinking, it is farm animals rather than those left to fend for themselves in the wild that have the better lives."

"Dante’s Paradise is – unchangingly – a place of infinite change; of change in who I am, among other things."

"It will be hard to shake free of the sense that to co-write with AI is to imbue the system with spirit. "

"Charles Mills’ work brilliantly and unhesitatingly engages white philosophy by stripping it of an ideological cover."

"Uexküll vehemently rejected the position that organisms are merely highly complex machines and can be fully explained in mechanistic terms"

"Freedom cannot be a property of the will, for freedom is the ontological condition that makes willing possible."

"Philosophy written by men gets positioned as philosophy; philosophy written by women gets positioned as feminist philosophy."

"It is in its situatedness, in its being placed, that thinking finds its very possibility and its proper ground."

"If Nietzsche was the great contrarian of the nineteeth century, Cioran, to a less famous extent, is the great contrarian of the twentieth."

"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."

"When we think, we 'withdraw' from the world of appearances, in order to make present to the mind what is absent from the senses."