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A Place for Thinking
Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania)
"It is as if philosophers are blind to their own being-placed; unable to recognise the place in which their thinking originates and by which it is sustained."
Genre
Phenomenology, Hermeneutics
Length
4,400 words
Keywords
Thinking, Space, Topology, Solitude
E. M. Cioran and the Contagion of Nothingness
Alexandre Leskanich
"At their best, Cioran’s aphorisms deftly puncture the narcissistic self-regard of a species who would reduce all the world to a vanity mirror."
Genre
History of Ideas
Length
3,400 words
Keywords
Despair, Nihilism, Biography
On Chess
Dan Taylor (Open University)
"Chess speaks of the dream of reason to master fate."
Genre
History of Ideas
Length
4,000 words
Keywords
Freedom, Politics, Literature
Embracing Retributivism
Leo Zaibert (Union College)
Leo Zaibert reviews Gregg D. Caruso's "Rejecting Retributivism" with response by Gregg D. Caruso
Genre
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Law
Length
12,500 words
Keywords
Punishment, Free Will, Responsibility
Thinking Out of Order
Thomas Bartscherer (Bard College)
"When we think, we 'withdraw' from the world of appearances, in order to make present to the mind what is absent from the senses."
Genre
Metaphilosophy
Length
3.400 words
Keywords
Hannah Arendt, Thinking
Take It or Leave It: The Political and Epistemic Effects of Academic Freedom
Naomi Waltham-Smith (University of Warwick)
"Universities ought not to shy away from the fact that they are in the business of radically making and remaking epistemic and political subjects."
Genre
Epistemology, Continental Philosophy
Length
3,800 words
Keywords
Academic Freedom, Epistemic Vices, Free Speech
The Philosophical Legacy of Charles W. Mills
Elvira Basevich (University of Massachusetts, Lowell)
"Death brings in its wake a peculiar sense of aloneness in which one loses the image of one’s self that another held."
Genre
Political Philosophy
Length
2,800 words
Keywords
Liberalism, Racism, Political Theory
Liberating Plato's Prisoners
Chiara Ricciardone
"For Plato, true knowledge of the form of the good, attained by the few, must overrule the differing opinions of democratic debate."
Genre
Metaphysics, Decolonial Thought
Length
4,000 words
Keywords
Decolonization, Political Thought, Allegory of the Cave