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"Freedom Regained: Henri Bergson at the Collège de France": A conversation with Alexandre Lefebvre and Nils F. Schott (Keywords: Freedom; Determinism; Time; Memory; History of Philosophy)

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Caleb Ward

15 min read

Reviews

"Inheriting the Poetry of Survival": Caleb Ward reviews "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Keywords: Poetry; Biography; Black Feminism)

"Something as insubstantial as a poetic image, if it touches on some truth or real feeling, can launch transformations."

Henry A. Giroux

13 min read

Conversations

"Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed": A conversation with Henry A. Giroux (Keywords: Violence; Critical Pedagogy; Neoliberalism; Hope)

"Hope is not only an educational practice, it is about social change and collective struggle. Hope is fundamentally social."

Isabelle Laurenzi

20 min read

Reviews

"Reclaim or Let Go?": Isabelle Laurenzi reviews The Joy of Consent by Manon Garcia and The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed (Keywords: Desire; Feminism; Emancipation; Conceptual Engineering)

"If Ahmed’s sources of killjoy inspiration dislodge a reader’s sense of the most important feminist thinkers, all the better."

Chiara Ambrosio and Ian James Kidd

12 min read

Conversations

"Pseudoscience after Feyerabend": Chiara Ambrosio and Ian James Kidd (Keywords: Epistemology; Objectivity; Science; Authority; Astrology)

"The criteria we use to discuss science and pseudoscience are incredibly context dependent."

Jason Blakely and Oliver Traldi

13 min read

Conversations

"Ideology and Political Belief": A Conversation with Jason Blakely and Oliver Traldi (Keywords: Epistemology; Hermeneutics; Anthropology; Objectivity; Science)

"If ideologies are cultures, they need to be learned. You can convert in and out of them, just as with religions."

Ian Olasov

10 min read

The New Basics

"Public": An Essay by Ian Olasov (Keywords: Humanities; Intellectuals; Education; History of Philosophy; Activism)

"Whatever else the history of philosophy is, it is the history of the tensions between philosophy’s public-facing and scholastic tendencies"

Dan Taylor, Gil Morejon, Marie Wuth, and Jack Stetter

30 min read

Essays

"Spinoza after Politics": Dan Taylor, Gil Morejon, Marie Wuth, and Jack Stetter (Keywords: Human Nature; Affects; Anarchism; State; Law; Imagination; War)

"The more we affect and are affected by others, the more we can perceive and understand the plurality of other human lives and experiences."

Sally Haslanger

7 min read

The New Basics

"Discipline": An Essay by Sally Haslanger (Keywords: Academic Freedom; Free Speech; Knowledge; Expertise; Universities)

"A crucial function of academic research is to produce knowledge that informs our collective decisions in a democracy.

Will Franken

17 min read

Essays

"On Violent Laughter (and Other Comedic First Principles)": An Essay by Will Franken (Keywords: Humour; Satire; Happiness; Subversion; Identity; Plato; Aristotle)

"Comedic happiness, initiated through surprise and propelled by laughter, must constitute an act of subversion."

Chi Rainer Bornfree

7 min read

The New Basics

"Contradiction": An Essay by Chi Rainer Bornfree (Keywords: History of Philosophy; Metaphysics; Violence; Hegel; Heidegger; Graham Priest; Rosa Luxemburg)

"Contradiction is a problem for knowing, a problem for doing things together, and a problem for living and feeling."

Kate Warlow-Corcoran

15 min read

Essays

"The Problem of Philosophical Deflection": An Essay by Kate Warlow-Corcoran (Keywords: Embodiment; Grief; Metaphilosophy; Iris Murdoch; Cora Diamond; J.M. Coetzee)

"Our habitual ways of speaking and thinking can seem inadequate to the task of expressing the reality of being human."

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THE PHILOSOPHER

Published since 1923

THE PHILOSOPHER

Published since 1923

Official journal of the Philosophical Society of England (PSE), a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). Registered UK Charity No. 1205921.

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