Anya Daly6 minEssaysInterrogating Lived ExperienceMont Sainte Victoire - Paul Cezanne (1895) What do we do when we do philosophy? And what should we do? What method in philosophy is...
Timothy Williamson28 minEssaysDoing PhilosophyThe phrase ‘doing philosophy’ has resonated with me since I was fifteen. I used to read a BBC magazine’s weekly transcripts of radio...
Catherine Wilson5 minEssaysPhilosophy as a VocationThe cryptic inscription on the tomb of the French social theorist Charles Fourier reads ‘Attractions are Proportional to Destinies.’ What...
Jason Stanley10 minEssaysThe Philosophy of Fascism The concept of democracy is not tied to a particular time and place. Even if democracy originated at some point, perhaps 5th and 4th...
Katherine Ritchie8 minEssaysFinding Social Groups in Networks of RelationsIdentities and identity politics are steeped in controversy. Politicians and pundits are criticizing students and those on the left for...
Chaira Ricciardone7 minEssaysDifferent but EqualThere are so many different ways we find ourselves enmeshed in the problem of difference. It’s a political problem, when nations or...
Alexander Douglas6 minEssaysPhilosophy and Hope ‘The use of philosophy’, wrote J.M.E. McTaggart (1866-1925), ‘lies not in being deeper than science, but in being truer than...