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Charles W. Mills

8 min read

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Ignorance, Innocent and Otherwise: A Conversation with Charles W. Mills (Keywords: Race; Knowledge)

"We don’t know not because we can’t know but because we don’t want to know."

Jonathan Rée

15 min read

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"Wild Philosophy": a Conversation with Jonathan Rée (Keywords: Public Philosophy; History)

"Nearly all histories of philosophy put readers in the position of someone who has to recognize that philosophy is too difficult for them."

Thomas Nail

12 min read

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"We Have Always Been Geological": a conversation with Thomas Nail (Keywords: Agency; Anthropocene)

"The most radical import of the Anthropocene is the unpredictable agency and mobility of the earth itself."

Maggie Nelson

21 min read

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"Messy Freedoms": A Conversation with Maggie Nelson (Keywords: Sex; Care; Responsibility; Motherhood

"While interdependency is a great fact, it does not actually tell us very much about what we are to do with it."

Amia Srinivasan

20 min read

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"Does the Heart Simply Want What the Heart Wants?" A Conversation with Amia Srinivasan

"We, as desirous creatures, are much more complex than the reigning ideology would have us believe."

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

19 min read

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"Physics is Not an Exception": A Conversation with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

"There’s this wide gap between what I think empiricism should be, and the kind of empiricism I actually see in practice as a scientist."

Martin Hägglund

13 min read

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"The Time of Our Lives": A Conversation with Martin Hägglund (Keywords: Faith; Freedom; Society)

"There is not first an individual and then society, or the other way around. Rather, it is in our nature to be socially formed."

Peter Wolfendale

18 min read

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"Artificial Bodies and the Promise of Abstraction": a conversation with Peter Wolfendale (Keywords: Philosophy of Mind; Phenomenology; Embodiment)

Please can you start by saying a few things about the rise of embodiment within contemporary philosophy? It seems to me to be mainly used...

Clare Chambers

11 min read

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"Feminism, Marriage and Choice" A Conversation with Clare Chambers (Keywords: Liberalism; equality)

"There are lots of ways in which women have a much better situation than we did once. But equally there are ways in which it is much worse."

A.W. Moore

19 min read

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"Finitude": a conversation with A.W. Moore (Keywords: Kant; Hegel; Wittgenstein; Metaphysics)

This interview was originally published in The Kantian Catastophe? Conversations on Finitude and the Limits of Philosophy , edited by...

Lucy Allais

18 min read

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"Transcendental Idealism": a conversation with Lucy Allais (Keywords: Kant, Metaphysics, Ethics)

This interview was originally published in The Kantian Catastophe? Conversations on Finitude and the Limits of Philosophy , edited by...

Béatrice Han-Pile

19 min read

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"The Analytic of Finitude": a conversation with Béatrice Han-Pile (Keywords: Foucault, Kant, History of Philosophy)

Anthony Morgan: I was hoping you could begin by saying a few things about Foucault specifically as a philosopher, given that he is...

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