"On the Feeling of Some Essential Failure": A Review of In Praise of Failure by Costica Bradatan
"We can only ever become, at best, more perfect failures: failures who finally understand the failures they are."
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Peter Wolfendale
- 36 min
"The Weight of Forever": Peter Wolfendale reviews What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill
"I don’t think we owe the future anything, strictly speaking, and this is why the future can be so exciting."
Helena de Bres
- 10 min
"Doing Philosophy While Doing Time": Helena de Bres reviews The Life Inside by Andy West
"I confess to persistent envy while reading The Life Inside about the urgency that philosophical questions have in West’s classrooms. "
Alexandre Leskanich
- 16 min
"An Excess of Reality": Alexandre Leskanich reviews On the Future by Martin Rees
"In possession of a historical consciousness that has never before been so excruciatingly heightened, we are bowed beneath its weight."
Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
- 13 min
"Psychedelics and the Limits of Naturalism": A Review by Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
"One of the important contributions that psychedelics bring is to offer a person novel conceptualizations of reality."
Tim Crane
- 13 min
"Taking Simulation Seriously": Tim Crane reviews Reality+ by David Chalmers
"The mere possibility that we might be living in a VR simulation is considered to be a reason to take it seriously as a theory of reality."
Eraldo Souza dos Santos
- 11 min
"Seeing Civil Disobedience Like a State": A Review by Eraldo Souza dos Santos
"To see civil disobedience like an activist is to see civil disobedience as a decolonizing praxis."
Jason Blakely
- 11 min
"Rationality is Me": A Review by Jason Blakely (Keywords: Pinker; Social Science; Enlightenment)
"In Pinker’s tale the rational, technocratic, liberal middle is a kind of virtuous and beleaguered minority."
Leo Zaibert
- 47 min
"Embracing Retributivism": A Review by Leo Zaibert; Plus Response from Gregg D. Caruso
"A 'morality' that jettisons moral responsibility, and that affirms that no one is deserving of anything, strikes many as implausible."
Linsey McGoey
- 10 min
"Hopeful Ignorance": Linsey McGoey reviews A Passion for Ignorance by Renata Salecl
"It is not knowledge but rather ignorance that helps us to believe that new types of emancipation are someday possible."
Alexander Douglas
- 10 min
The Rewilding of Philosophy
"Distinctions can be made among things, but only from some or other arbitrary point of view."
David Livingstone Smith
- 14 min
"Are We Decent Deep Down?": David Livingstone Smith reviews Humankind by Rutger Bregman
"A large part of human nature is our capacity to use culture to engineer human nature itself, for good or for ill."
Matthew McKeever
- 12 min
Shadows of an Alternative Present
It’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 Whiting
- 7 min
"On Having a Voice": Lisa Whiting Reviews Recollections of my Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
“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 Douglas
- 11 min
The Goods of the Earthly City
Humans are the only mortal creatures – this is a doctrine that Hannah Arendt found in the pre-Socratic Greeks. In their vision, the gods...
Can 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 Ghazavi
- 13 min
Philosophy After the Crisis
In a 2016 article on “Philosophy and Ideology,” Amia Srinivasan illuminates the peril of analytic philosophy displacing a politics from...
Jeremy Fantl
- 11 min
The 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 Morgan
- 28 min
Resisting the Ontological Limbo Dance
Where, 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’Connor
- 10 min
Idleness and Society
What was it that motivated your book on idleness? It was actually an accident that brought me to it. I have always been interested in...
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