Conversations

"Polarization and Talking Across Difference": Elizabeth Anderson in conversation with Alexis Papazoglou (Keywords: Democracy; Populism; Reparations; Pragmatism; John Dewey; Susan Neiman)

Elizabeth Anderson and Alexis Papazoglou

14 min

"Polarization and Talking Across Difference": Elizabeth Anderson in conversation with Alexis Papazoglou (Keywords: Democracy; Populism; Reparations; Pragmatism; John Dewey; Susan Neiman)

"Everything has been sorted and segregated so that people of different political parties have no opportunities to engage one another."

Andrew Bowie

10 min

Conversations

"The Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy" a conversation with Andrew Bowie (Keywords: Art; Language; Meaning; Epistemology; Modernity)

"If you think of meaning simply in semantic, verbal terms, you’re missing out much of what goes on in language."

"Disobedience and Seeing Like an Activist": Erin R. Pineda in conversation with Robin Celikates (Keywords: Civil Rights Movement; Liberalism; Punishment; Liberation)

Erin R. Pineda and Robin Celikates

18 min

Conversations

"Disobedience and Seeing Like an Activist": Erin R. Pineda in conversation with Robin Celikates (Keywords: Civil Rights Movement; Liberalism; Punishment; Liberation)

"I try to show that civil disobedience emerged within a civil rights movement that was deeply in conversation with anti-colonial movements."

Paul C. Taylor

22 min

Conversations

"Post-Post-Racialism: or the Evolution of Race-Thinking": A Conversation with Paul C. Taylor (Keywords: Metaphilosophy; Political Philosophy; Afropessimism; Aesthetics)

"The burden of philosophy is to provide the resources to tell ourselves stories so we can subject ourselves to self-scrutiny."

Martin Hägglund and Lea Ypi

37 min

Conversations

"What is Hegelian Marxism?" and "Socalism and Freedom": Martin Hägglund and Lea Ypi in Conversation

"Our unfreedom under capitalism stems from how the purpose of our economy, of our life-sustaining activities, is already decided."

Philip Goff

11 min

Conversations

"The Glitter is in Everything" a conversation with Philip Goff (Keywords: Panpsychism; God; Meaning)

"I do think panpsychism is a picture of the world that is better than most for our mental and spiritual health!"

Stella Sandford

18 min

Conversations

"Kant's Legacy": A conversation with Stella Sandford (Keywords: Metaphysics; Knowledge; Race)

"One of the greatest challenges of the Critique of Pure Reason is that it asks us to rethink what we mean by ‘objectivity’."

Linda Martín Alcoff

16 min

Conversations

"A Particularly Wonderful Human Being": Linda Martín Alcoff on Charles W. Mills

"We had a really egalitarian relationship, and I have not found that to be the case too often with male academics."

Peter Wolfendale

20 min

Conversations

"The Concept of Concept": A Conversation with Peter Wolfendale (Keywords: Truth; Reality; Cognition)

"Concepts are fundamentally determined by their relations to one another, so it’s hard to tinker with them in isolation."

Lee A. McBride III

11 min

Conversations

"What is Insurrectionist Ethics?" by Lee A. McBride III (Keywords: Pragmatism; Naturalism; Ethics)

"I aspire to do philosophy in the world, recognizing human finitude, conceptual and perceptual limitations, and bias."

Ajahn Sucitto

20 min

Conversations

"Finding Refuge": A Conversation with Ajahn Sucitto (Keywords: Buddhism; Mind-Body; Perception)

"We may have done amazing things with the rational mind in the centuries since Descartes, yet there is still pain, anxiety, and depression."

Samuel Moyn

21 min

Conversations

"Humanising War, Obscuring Peace": A Conversation with Samuel Moyn

"I sense that humanisation is the problem as much as the solution because it masks efforts at domination."

Andy West

17 min

Conversations

"Philosophy, Memoir, and Revelation": Andy West in Conversation with Adam Ferner

"I have no interest in arguing that memoir is actually philosophy and philosophy is actually memoir. I’m happy to cannibalise both."

"Can Our Bodies Ever Be Good Enough?" Clare Chambers in conversation with Brian D. Earp

Clare Chambers and Brian D. Earp

13 min

Conversations

"Can Our Bodies Ever Be Good Enough?" Clare Chambers in conversation with Brian D. Earp

"The images and the ideals about how our body should be are strongly dependent on existing inequalities and discriminatory practices."

Robert S. Leib

15 min

Conversations

Kermit’s Dreams: (Sophie) Kermit in conversation with Robert S. Leib

"We have lots to question anew around exoanthropology, especially on the nature of persons and normative structures involved in personhood."

Charles W. Mills

8 min

Conversations

Ignorance, Innocent and Otherwise: A Conversation with Charles W. Mills (Keywords: Race; Knowledge)

"We don’t know not because we can’t know but because we don’t want to know."

Jonathan Rée

15 min

Conversations

"Wild Philosophy": a Conversation with Jonathan Rée (Keywords: Public Philosophy; History)

"Nearly all histories of philosophy put readers in the position of someone who has to recognize that philosophy is too difficult for them."

Thomas Nail

12 min

Conversations

"We Have Always Been Geological": a conversation with Thomas Nail (Keywords: Agency; Anthropocene)

"The most radical import of the Anthropocene is the unpredictable agency and mobility of the earth itself."

Maggie Nelson

21 min

Conversations

"Messy Freedoms": A Conversation with Maggie Nelson (Keywords: Sex; Care; Responsibility; Motherhood

"While interdependency is a great fact, it does not actually tell us very much about what we are to do with it."

Amia Srinivasan

20 min

Conversations

"Does the Heart Simply Want What the Heart Wants?" A Conversation with Amia Srinivasan

"We, as desirous creatures, are much more complex than the reigning ideology would have us believe."

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Published since 1923

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