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

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

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

"Just as perception is not the enemy of reason despite its fallibility, neither is imagination."

"Philosophy at the service of the authority’s demands for deference and submission might not really be philosophy at all."

"When the category of possibility is in crisis, the intelligibility of collective action and cooperative life will be imperilled"

"Our non-global conception of philosophy is rather a latecomer, while still establishing itself as the history of philosophy." 

"When someone is lost in ideology, their politics appears natural, even scientific, and not historical and cultural."

"Can an idea be ours without just being owned? Can the author survive the end of authorial authority?"

"Academic philosophers are increasingly trained to see themselves as valuable only insofar as they can produce knowledge."

"There are many nonideal scenarios that can negatively impact upon one’s capacity for rational deliberation."

"We may not like limits. They may frustrate us. But it is, arguably, only through embracing them that we can eke meaning out of existence."

"To the extent that desire is erotic, what would theories of desire be if women were makers, rather than bearers, of meaning?"

"Recognition is not just a moral or ethical concept, but also, and perhaps primarily, a political concept."

"The primacy of the brain functions as a something of a barometer for how we have come to be governed."

"Self-knowledge emerges as an exercise of human agency, to be understood as the way in which one takes responsibility for one’s own mind."

"At such a fraught political moment, it is worth reflecting on the fact that to be queer is to be strange and difficult to categorise."

"Philosophy needs to reckon with the part it has played, and continues to play, in the epistemic and normative exclusion of madness."

"If philosophy aspires to knowledge, aren’t philosophers bound to deny that temperaments, rather than arguments, determine what they think?"

"To love eudaimonically is to love with good spirits: with supportive community, with help from friends, and so on."