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"Livability": An Essay by Simona Capisani (Keywords: Climate Change; Justice; Territory; Mobility)
"Where and how we are situated and impacted by the shifting and shrinking climate niche is not incidental."
Simona Capisani
12 min read


"Coloniality": An Essay by Malcom Ferdinand (Keywords: Ecology; Anthropocene; Decolonial Thought)
"We may be on the same boat, but not everybody is treated equally – and some are jettisoned at the first gust of wind."
Malcom Ferdinand
9 min read


"Capitalism": An Essay by Alexander Douglas (Keywords: Climate Crisis; Rentierism; Politics; Marx)
"Current governments have demonstrated their inability to manage even a full baby-step towards carbon neutrality."
Alexander Douglas
12 min read


"Jakob von Uexküll’s Concept of Umwelt" by Tim Elmo Feiten (Keywords: Biology; Metaphysics; Animals)
"Uexküll vehemently rejected the position that organisms are merely highly complex machines and can be fully explained in mechanistic terms"
Tim Elmo Feiten
8 min read


"Beyond Free Will": An Essay by Donovan Irven (Keywords: Freedom; Existentialism; Neurophilosophy)
"Freedom cannot be a property of the will, for freedom is the ontological condition that makes willing possible."
Donovan Irven
18 min read


"Philosophy Herself": An Essay by Jana Bacevic (Keywords: Beauvoir; Feminism; Lived Experience)
"Philosophy written by men gets positioned as philosophy; philosophy written by women gets positioned as feminist philosophy."
Jana Bacevic
11 min read


"Seeing Civil Disobedience Like a State": Eraldo Souza dos Santos reviews "Seeing Like a State" by Erin Pineda (Keywords: Political Philosophy; Liberalism; Activism)
"To see civil disobedience like an activist is to see civil disobedience as a decolonizing praxis."
Eraldo Souza dos Santos
11 min read


"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."
Jason Blakely
11 min read


"Volunteering Opportunities with The Philosopher"
"We are looking for people to join our team in 2025 to help us develop and expand some of the things that we do."
The Philosopher Team
4 min read


"Supporting The Philosopher's Mission in 2025: An Appeal for Donations"
"We hope you will consider making a one-time, year-end donation to support our efforts. Your generosity fuels everything we do."
The Philosopher Team
2 min read


A Place for Thinking": An Essay by Jeff Malpas (Keywords: Solitude; Place; Descartes; Finitude)
"It is in its situatedness, in its being placed, that thinking finds its very possibility and its proper ground."
Jeff Malpas
17 min read


"Cosmic Invalidity": An Essay by Alexandre Leskanich (Keywords: Cioran; Nothingness; Pessimism)
"If Nietzsche was the great contrarian of the nineteeth century, Cioran, to a less famous extent, is the great contrarian of the twentieth."
Alexandre Leskanich
13 min read
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