"Queer" by Finn Mackay (Keywords: Feminism; Activism; Heteronormativity; Gender; Sexuality)
"At such a fraught political moment, it is worth reflecting on the fact that to be queer is to be strange and difficult to categorise."
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"Madness" by Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed (Keywords: Identity; Personhood; rationality; Recognition)
"Philosophy needs to reckon with the part it has played, and continues to play, in the epistemic and normative exclusion of madness."
Kieran Setiya
- 8 min
"Temperament": An Essay by Kieran Setiya (Keywords: Self-Expression; Emotion; Truth; Epistemology)
"If philosophy aspires to knowledge, aren’t philosophers bound to deny that temperaments, rather than arguments, determine what they think?"
Carrie Jenkins
- 9 min
"Love" by Carrie Jenkins (Keywords: Normativity; Eudaimonia; Marriage; Socio-Economic Status)
"To love eudaimonically is to love with good spirits: with supportive community, with help from friends, and so on."
"Bodymind" by Joel Michael Reynolds (Keywords: Phenomenology; Embodiment; Disability; Care)
"We still judge the worth of a person, and even entire groups, based on their bodies. We still do so to the point of death."
Kris Sealey
- 10 min
"Other" by Kris Sealey (Keywords: Race; Critical Black Studies; Recognition; Pseudoscience)
"The racialization central to modernity orients otherness in terms of what is human, and what is, in some iteration, humanity’s 'other'."
Michelle Bastian
- 9 min
"Time" by Michelle Bastian (Keywords: Continental Philosophy; Metaphysics; Sociology; Capitalism)
"How societies should tell the time, including how they set their clocks, has not generally been seen as a philosophical problem."
William Davies
- 9 min
"Feeling" by William Davies (Keywords: Facts; Knowledge; Mind-Body; Populism; Politics; Psychiatry)
"Feeling messes with the distinction between mind and body that is so foundational to modern concepts of the self."
Lani Watson
- 9 min
"Knowledge"by Lani Watson (Keywords: Social Epistemology; Epistemic Injustice; Post-Truth; Norms)
"Epistemic injustice occurs paradigmatically in cases where a person is dismissed or disenfranchised as a knower."
Rima Basu
- 8 min
"Belief": An Essay by Rima Basu(Keywords: Epistemology; Individualism; Stereotypes; Racism)
"We cannot go blithely into the world believing whatever we want because belief is a communal object."
Maeve McKeown
- 10 min
"Responsibility": An Essay by Maeve McKeown(Keywords: Politics; Ethics; Agency; Global Justice)
"Cumulative human activities can impact on millions of geographically dispersed people in deeply harmful ways".
Reiland Rabaka
- 10 min
"Intersectionality": An Essay by Reiland Rabaka (Keywords: Identity; Oppression; Black Feminism)
"Intersectionality offers multiply marginalized people a way to identify and interpret forms of violence, oppression, and exploitation."
"Violence": An Essay by Eraldo Souza dos Santos (Keywords: Politics; Structures; Domination; Racism)
"Violence cannot be understood only through the gesture of the blow, but equally through the systemic suffering that permeates our lives."
Jana Bacevic
- 10 min
"Reality": An Essay by Jana Bacevic (Keywords: Truth; Anthropology; Bruno Latour; Climate Change)
Reality is not in people’s heads as much as it is created through the interaction of specific groups of people in specific times and places.
Robin Celikates
- 11 min
"Borders": An Essay by Robin Celikates (Keywords: Refugees; Nationalism; Pandemic; Critical Theory)
"A border is never just a border, a gate to be opened or closed at will."
Briana Toole
- 10 min
"Objectivity": An Essay by Briana Toole (Keywords: Epistemology; Methodology; Race; Power; Truth)
"If objectivity is little more than a shield to protect the interests of the powerful, then what does this mean for the pursuit of truth?"
Jessica Whyte
- 10 min
"Market": An Essay by Jessica Whyte (Keywords: Neoliberalism; Capitalism; Democracy; Freedom; Peace)
"What is a market if markets can over-ride the democratic political process and determine the priorities to which nations must conform?"
Yarran Hominh
- 11 min
"Unfreedom": An Essay by Yarran Hominh (Keywords: Agency; Liberation; Pragmatism; Non-Ideal Theory)
"Unfreedom is not just a matter of states of the world, but how the world affects and shapes how we think, feel, and act."
Simone M. Müller
- 8 min
"Toxicity": An Essay by Simone M. Müller (Keywords: Planet; Anthropocene; Injustice; Inequality)
"In the age of the toxic commons, not one of us, not even the environmentally privileged ones like me, remains unaffected by toxicants."
Thomas Nail
- 9 min
"Movement": An Essay by Thomas Nail (Keywords: Anthropocene; Ontology; Migration; Capitalism)
"We cannot adequately understand contemporary politics through the paradigm of static states and stationary citizens."
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