"We may have done amazing things with the rational mind in the centuries since Descartes, yet there is still pain, anxiety, and depression."

"I sense that humanisation is the problem as much as the solution because it masks efforts at domination."

"I have no interest in arguing that memoir is actually philosophy and philosophy is actually memoir. I’m happy to cannibalise both."

"The images and the ideals about how our body should be are strongly dependent on existing inequalities and discriminatory practices."

"We have lots to question anew around exoanthropology, especially on the nature of persons and normative structures involved in personhood."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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...

"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."

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

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

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