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"Extremism and the Allure of Science": A Conversation with Tracy Llanera and Louise Richardson-Self (Keywords: White Supremacy; Conspiracy Theories; Nationalism; Gender; Essentialism; Objectivity)
"The long-term agendas of various stakeholders of white extremism skew the way that research data is interpreted and engaged."
Tracy Llanera and Louise Richardson-Self
10 min read


"Science, Anti-Science, Pseudoscience, Truth": A Conversation with Nima Bassiri (Keywords: Authority; Trust; Liberalism; Scientism)
"The difference between the trust of science adherents and the trust of science deniers is not the form of trust but merely its content."
Nima Bassiri
17 min read


"Derrick Bell and Racial Realism": A conversation with Timothy Golden (Keywords: Critical Race Theory; Justice; Despair; Progress; Obama; Mass Incarceration)
"Black Americans are painfully reminded that racism has worsened since Obama’s presidency, not improved."
Timothy Golden
11 min read


"Why Misanthropy?": A Conversation with Ian James Kidd (Keywords: Human Nature; Morality; Activism; Quietism; Confucius; The Buddha)
"Depressing as it might seem, misanthropy does register a fundamental truth about humankind as it has come to be."
Ian James Kidd
17 min read


Frantz Fanon’s "The Wretched of the Earth": a conversation with Lewis R. Gordon (Keywords: Violence; Race; Dehumanisation; Psychoanalysis; Intersubjectivity; Poetry)
"Fanon himself hated violence. But what he hated more was complicity with violence through a refusal to act."
Lewis R. Gordon
10 min read


"Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition": A conversation with Samantha Rose Hill (Keywords: Violence; Technology; Alienation; Freedom; Democracy)
"How do we think about a new political imaginary that is connected to, yet distinct from, technology?"
Samantha Rose Hill
11 min read


"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)
From The Philosopher,  vol. 112, no. 2 (" Violence ") If you enjoy reading this, please consider becoming a patron  or making a small...
Alexandre Lefebvre and Nils F. Schott
17 min read


"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."
Henry A. Giroux
13 min read


"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."
Chiara Ambrosio and Ian James Kidd
12 min read


"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."
Jason Blakely and Oliver Traldi
13 min read


"Polarization and Talking Across Difference": Elizabeth Anderson in conversation with Alexis Papazoglou (Keywords: Democracy; Populism; Reparations; Pragmatism; John Dewey; Susan Neiman)
"Everything has been sorted and segregated so that people of different political parties have no opportunities to engage one another."
Elizabeth Anderson and Alexis Papazoglou
14 min read


"The Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy" a conversation with Andrew Bowie (Keywords: Art; Language; Meaning; Epistemology; Modernity)
"If you think of meaning simply in semantic, verbal terms, you’re missing out much of what goes on in language."
Andrew Bowie
10 min read


"Disobedience and Seeing Like an Activist": Erin R. Pineda in conversation with Robin Celikates (Keywords: Civil Rights Movement; Liberalism; Punishment; Liberation)
"I try to show that civil disobedience emerged within a civil rights movement that was deeply in conversation with anti-colonial movements."
Erin R. Pineda and Robin Celikates
18 min read


"Post-Post-Racialism: or the Evolution of Race-Thinking": A Conversation with Paul C. Taylor (Keywords: Metaphilosophy; Political Philosophy; Afropessimism; Aesthetics)
"The burden of philosophy is to provide the resources to tell ourselves stories so we can subject ourselves to self-scrutiny."Â
Paul C. Taylor
22 min read


"What is Hegelian Marxism?" and "Socalism and Freedom": Martin Hägglund and Lea Ypi in Conversation
"Our unfreedom under capitalism stems from how the purpose of our economy, of our life-sustaining activities, is already decided."
Martin Hägglund and Lea Ypi
37 min read


"The Glitter is in Everything" a conversation with Philip Goff (Keywords: Panpsychism; God; Meaning)
"I do think panpsychism is a picture of the world that is better than most for our mental and spiritual health!"
Philip Goff
11 min read


"Kant's Legacy": A conversation with Stella Sandford (Keywords: Metaphysics; Knowledge; Race)
"One of the greatest challenges of the Critique of Pure Reason is that it asks us to rethink what we mean by ‘objectivity’."
Stella Sandford
18 min read


"A Particularly Wonderful Human Being": Linda MartÃn Alcoff on Charles W. Mills
"We had a really egalitarian relationship, and I have not found that to be the case too often with male academics."
Linda MartÃn Alcoff
16 min read


"The Concept of Concept": A Conversation with Peter Wolfendale (Keywords: Truth; Reality; Cognition)
"Concepts are fundamentally determined by their relations to one another, so it’s hard to tinker with them in isolation."
Peter Wolfendale
20 min read


"What is Insurrectionist Ethics?" by Lee A. McBride III (Keywords: Pragmatism; Naturalism; Ethics)
"I aspire to do philosophy in the world, recognizing human finitude, conceptual and perceptual limitations, and bias."
Lee A. McBride III
11 min read
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