"What is it that we defend under the banner of “academic freedom”? At what possible costs?"

"Death brings in its wake a peculiar sense of aloneness in which one loses the image of one’s self that another held."

"To leave the cave is to abandon something that matters deeply: politics, the material world, art and poetry and beauty."

"When it comes to research, the popular conception of lone scientific geniuses is off the mark; scientific progress requires collaboration."

"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."

Artwork by Joanna Borkowska Philosophy, according to classical metaphysicians, begins in wonder: why is there something rather than...

"Trust in and adherence to scientific truth ultimately remains a moral norm, an expression of behavioural propriety. "

"Authority, irreducible to both coercion and knowledge, cannot simply be done away with."

"We should problematize current political discourses that declare a 'war on the virus.'"

"For me, the zone of nothingness is a sacred space, a kind of pre-creative state that is essential to my work."

"Is 'trust in science' just the flipside of trust in religious or, for that matter, political authority?"

"Bringing a child into existence is one of the most environmentally impactful decisions anyone can make."

"Have you ever woken up feeling like there’s no point in getting out of bed because, after all, nothing really matters?"

"What could justify this difference between the way we treat human beings and the way we treat the other animals?"

"How did human beings ever find it remotely plausible that the world is neatly riven by an ontological divide?"

This is an edited transcript of a talk Professor Anderson gave at an event organized by The Philosopher at Conway Hall, London on 13th...

"Deference epistemology responds to real, morally weighty experiences of being put down, ignored, sidelined, or silenced."

Image © Megan Diddie As the coronavirus pandemic has made a swift advance across Europe, most of us have found ourselves engaging in the...

This semester, I gave my students a confounding assignment. I asked them to write a “non-representative representation” of a community to...

As I write this essay, waves of protest are rolling across America. And not just America: all over the world, people are rising up in...