"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."

"To accept that there are many equally valid perspectives on values, justifications and the world does not logically necessitate tolerance."

This essay explores whether “climate” is truly real, not by denying it, but by questioning how we understand it. Drawing on philosophy, it argues climate is both everywhere and hard to define—shaping experience without being directly observable. Climate change, then, is not just physical warming but a shift in how humans perceive and relate to the world, revealing gaps between lived experience and abstract scientific concepts.

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

"We cannot go blithely into the world believing whatever we want because belief is a communal object."

"Human progress should not be defined in strictly material or spiritual terms, but in our capacity to unite the two."

"Cumulative human activities can impact on millions of geographically dispersed people in deeply harmful ways".

"Intersectionality offers multiply marginalized people a way to identify and interpret forms of violence, oppression, and exploitation."

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

"Regarding meaning, death just does what time would do eventually anyway, but perhaps more mercifully."

"Violence cannot be understood only through the gesture of the blow, but equally through the systemic suffering that permeates our lives."