Eraldo Souza dos Santos11 minReviewsSEEING CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE LIKE A STATE"To see civil disobedience like an activist is to see civil disobedience as a decolonizing praxis."
Jason Blakely11 minReviewsRATIONALITY IS ME"In Pinker’s tale the rational, technocratic, liberal middle is a kind of virtuous and beleaguered minority."
Leo Zaibert47 minReviewsEMBRACING RETRIBUTIVISMGregg Caruso’s Rejecting Retributivism is a resolute and wide-ranging book. Since I cannot address all the material in it that deserves...
Linsey McGoey9 minReviewsHopeful IgnoranceArtwork by Joanna Borkowska Does being loving, whether it’s as a partner, a child or a parent, require truthfulness at all times? And if...
Alexander Douglas10 minReviewsThe Rewilding of PhilosophyArtwork by Joanna Borkowska When two things are distinct from each other, what makes them distinct? An odd question, perhaps, but one...
David Livingstone Smith13 minReviewsAre We Decent Deep Down?Homo sapiens are by nature a social species. Sociality – indeed, what biologists call ultrasociality – is built in to human nature. There...
Matthew McKeever12 minReviewsShadows of an Alternative PresentIt’s the 20th year of the century. The world is in chaos: Europe is knitted together by financial obligations that seem to benefit few...
Lisa Whiting7 minReviewsOn Having a Voice“I was writing about what it means not to have a voice and making the case for the redistribution of that power.” – Rebecca Solnit ...
Alexander Douglas11 minReviewsThe Goods of the Earthly CityHumans are the only mortal creatures – this is a doctrine that Hannah Arendt found in the pre-Socratic Greeks. In their vision, the gods...
Rebecca Buxton and Anthony Morgan 11 minReviewsCan William James Save Your Life? Maybe...Luca Upper Many philosophers are sceptical of “philosophy as self-help” type books, possibly because they resent having to stand between...
Vafa Ghazavi13 minReviewsPhilosophy After the CrisisIn a 2016 article on “Philosophy and Ideology,” Amia Srinivasan illuminates the peril of analytic philosophy displacing a politics from...
Jeremy Fantl11 minReviewsThe Epistemologist's Moment"Everything is Fine" by Jacques Rival It’s our time. Or so philosophers like to think. Technological and cultural developments over the...
Anthony Morgan28 minReviewsResisting the Ontological Limbo DanceWhere, if anywhere, are we to locate the mind? Can it be pinned down like an X on a map? According to a number of highly influential...
Brian O’Connor10 minReviewsIdleness and SocietyWhat was it that motivated your book on idleness? It was actually an accident that brought me to it. I have always been interested in...
Elizabeth Robson9 minReviewsSex and Drugs (and Ethics)Pixabay Shortly before Love Drugs arrived in the post, I had finished reading two bestselling books by non-philosophers that both...
Naomi Oreskes11 minReviewsEvolving Our Trust in ScienceAn alleged UFO seen from a farm near McMinnville, Oregon, 1950. Science History Images/Alamy There’s a church across the road from my...
Anthony Morgan13 minReviewsBad Faith and the BuddhaThe reclining Buddha at Bodhi Tataung (Wikimedia Commons) “People search for goodness and try to throw away evil, but they don’t study...