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"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


"On Chess": An Essay by Dan Taylor (Keywords: Games; Free Will; Spinoza; George Eliot)
"The history of chess and philosophy has yet to be written. And yet the history of the latter is replete with references to the former."
Dan Taylor
16 min read


"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."
Leo Zaibert
48 min read


"Thinking Out Of Order": An Essay by Thomas Bartscherer (Keywords: Mind; Metaphilosophy; Hannah Arendt)
"When we think, we 'withdraw' from the world of appearances, in order to make present to the mind what is absent from the senses."
Thomas Bartscherer
13 min read


"Take it or Leave it": An Essay by Naomi Waltham-Smith (Keywords: Academic Freedom; Free Speech)
"What is it that we defend under the banner of “academic freedom”? At what possible costs?"
Naomi Waltham-Smith
15 min read


"The Philosophical Legacy of Charles W. Mills" by Elvira Basevich (Keywords: Race; Liberalism)
"Death brings in its wake a peculiar sense of aloneness in which one loses the image of one’s self that another held."
Elvira Basevich
11 min read


"Liberating Plato's Prisoners" by Chi Rainer Bornfree (Keywords: Metaphysics; Decolonization)
"To leave the cave is to abandon something that matters deeply: politics, the material world, art and poetry and beauty."
Chi Rainer Bornfree
16 min read
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