"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."
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Thomas Nail
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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."
Nancy Tuana
9 min read
"Sensibilities": An Essay by Nancy Tuana (Keywords: Affect; Anthropocentrism; Planet; Relationality)
"Despite the dominance of a sensibility that hyperseparates humans and nature, it is far from being universal."
Simona Capisani
12 min read
"Livability": An Essay by Simona Capisani (Keywords: Climate Change; Justice; Territory; Mobility)
"Where and how we are situated and impacted by the shifting and shrinking climate niche is not incidental."
Malcom Ferdinand
9 min read
"Coloniality": An Essay by Malcom Ferdinand (Keywords: Ecology; Anthropocene; Decolonial Thought)
"We may be on the same boat, but not everybody is treated equally – and some are jettisoned at the first gust of wind."
Alexander Douglas
12 min read
"Capitalism": An Essay by Alexander Douglas (Keywords: Climate Crisis; Rentierism; Politics; Marx)
"Current governments have demonstrated their inability to manage even a full baby-step towards carbon neutrality."
Tim Elmo Feiten
8 min read
"Jakob von Uexküll’s Concept of Umwelt" by Tim Elmo Feiten (Keywords: Biology; Metaphysics; Animals)
"Uexküll vehemently rejected the position that organisms are merely highly complex machines and can be fully explained in mechanistic terms"
Donovan Irven
18 min read
"Beyond Free Will": An Essay by Donovan Irven (Keywords: Freedom; Existentialism; Neurophilosophy)
"Freedom cannot be a property of the will, for freedom is the ontological condition that makes willing possible."
Jana Bacevic
11 min read
"Philosophy Herself": An Essay by Jana Bacevic (Keywords: Beauvoir; Feminism; Lived Experience)
"Philosophy written by men gets positioned as philosophy; philosophy written by women gets positioned as feminist philosophy."
Eraldo Souza dos Santos
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"Seeing Civil Disobedience Like a State": Eraldo Souza dos Santos reviews "Seeing Like a State" by Erin Pineda (Keywords: Political Philosophy; Liberalism; Activism)
"To see civil disobedience like an activist is to see civil disobedience as a decolonizing praxis."
Jason Blakely
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"Rationality is Me": A Review by Jason Blakely (Keywords: Pinker; Social Science; Enlightenment)
"In Pinker’s tale the rational, technocratic, liberal middle is a kind of virtuous and beleaguered minority."
Jeff Malpas
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A Place for Thinking": An Essay by Jeff Malpas (Keywords: Solitude; Place; Descartes; Finitude)
"It is in its situatedness, in its being placed, that thinking finds its very possibility and its proper ground."
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