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Sophie Grace Chappell

15 min read

Essays

"Transformation and Immortality: Introducing Dante’s Divina Commedia": An Essay by Sophie-Grace Chappell

"Dante’s Paradise is – unchangingly – a place of infinite change; of change in who I am, among other things."

Chi Rainer Bornfree

21 min read

Essays

"Artificial Fiction": An Essay by Chi Rainer Bornfree (Keywords: AI; Technology; Art; Literature)

"It will be hard to shake free of the sense that to co-write with AI is to imbue the system with spirit. "

George Yancy

18 min read

Essays

"Charles Mills: On Seeing and Naming the Whiteness of Philosophy": An Essay by George Yancy

"Charles Mills’ work brilliantly and unhesitatingly engages white philosophy by stripping it of an ideological cover."

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

13 min read

Reviews

"Psychedelics and the Limits of Naturalism": A Review by Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

"One of the important contributions that psychedelics bring is to offer a person novel conceptualizations of reality."

Tim Crane

13 min read

Reviews

"Taking Simulation Seriously": Tim Crane reviews "Reality+" by David Chalmers (Keywords: Philosophy of Mind; Technology; Virtual Reality)

"The mere possibility that we might be living in a VR simulation is considered to be a reason to take it seriously as a theory of reality."

Jonathan Rée

15 min read

Conversations

"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

Conversations

"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

The New Basics

"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

The New Basics

"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

The New Basics

"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

The New Basics

"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

Essays

"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"

THE PHILOSOPHER

Published since 1923

THE PHILOSOPHER

Published since 1923

Official journal of the Philosophical Society of England (PSE), a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). Registered UK Charity No. 1205921.

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