This online event launches a special issue of Philosophy Today (70.1) on climate change. The issue’s thirty-two essays, interviews, and book reviews describe the conditions of a planetary age and invite us to assemble as friends of all the living. Topics include climate philosophy, contemporary climate art and aesthetics, trans and queer ecology, decolonial theory, climate history, political theory, comparative philosophy, and the ethics of emerging technologies such as AI.

Speakers:

• Jonathon Catlin, University of Rochester

• Robin Celikates, Freie Universität Berlin

• Matthias Fritsch, Concordia University

• Maximilian Gregor Hepach, Durham University

• Travis Holloway, Pratt Institute

• Holly Hudson, WeSmellGas

• Lynne Huffer, Emory University

• Ruthanne Kim, St. Cloud State University

• Thomas Khurana, University of Potsdam

• Brent Matheny, Penn State University

• Mohamed Amer Meziane, Brown University

• Marie-Eve Morin, University of Alberta

• Timothy Morton, Rice University

• Thomas Nail, University of Denver

• Jason Read, Maine University of Southern Maine

• David Myer Temin, University of Michigan

• Eric Dean Wilson, Adelphi University

• Aimee van Wynsberghe, The University of Bonn

• Perry Zurn, American University

Andrés Saenz de Sicilia is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University London. His book, Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society was published by Brill in 2024. He is also a Managing Director at The Philosopher.