"Philosophers are trained in the kind of abstract critical reasoning that is problematically absent from the sciences today."

"As a species, we still glance at the future, but it is now through a foreboding mist of dread more than an aspirational cloud of hope."

"The study of 'other worlds' can only be worthwhile if it ultimately helps us to better navigate the world which we currently inhabit."

"The racialization central to modernity orients otherness in terms of what is human, and what is, in some iteration, humanity’s 'other'."

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

"How societies should tell the time, including how they set their clocks, has not generally been seen as a philosophical problem."

"Change the concepts, and you can change the inferences, and in turn you can change the social, legal, and even scientific practices."

"Feeling messes with the distinction between mind and body that is so foundational to modern concepts of the self."

"There is something odd about the notion that merely sharing an identity feature with someone else is a sufficient basis for solidarity."

"Relational conceptions of autonomy end up licensing various types of paternalism to which feminists should object."

"Epistemic injustice occurs paradigmatically in cases where a person is dismissed or disenfranchised as a knower."

"If there is to be learning and progress, then the unit that has learned or made progress has to be seen as endowed with a history."