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Elvira Basevich

11 min read

Essays

"The Philosophical Legacy of Charles W. Mills" by Elvira Basevich (Keywords: Race; Liberalism)

"Death brings in its wake a peculiar sense of aloneness in which one loses the image of one’s self that another held."

Chi Rainer Bornfree

16 min read

Essays

"Liberating Plato's Prisoners" by Chi Rainer Bornfree (Keywords: Metaphysics; Decolonization)

"To leave the cave is to abandon something that matters deeply: politics, the material world, art and poetry and beauty."

Matyáš Moravec and Peter West

10 min read

Essays

"In Praise of Co-Authoring": An Essay by Matyáš Moravec and Peter West

"When it comes to research, the popular conception of lone scientific geniuses is off the mark; scientific progress requires collaboration."

Lewis R. Gordon

20 min read

Essays

"Racialization and Human Reality": An Essay by Lewis R. Gordon (Keywords: Race; Gender; Identity)

"To speak of the reality of race is not to speak of it in ontological terms as one would a chair, stone, or tautological algorithm."

Maggie Nelson

21 min read

Conversations

"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."

Amy Allen

13 min read

Essays

"Why Psychoanalysis?" by Amy Allen (Keywords: Rationality; Philosophy of Science; Freud; Foucault)

Artwork by Joanna Borkowska Philosophy, according to classical metaphysicians, begins in wonder: why is there something rather than...

Nima Bassiri

16 min read

Essays

"The Force of Scientific Authority" by Nima Bassiri (Keywords: Knowledge; Truth; Power; Trust)

"Trust in and adherence to scientific truth ultimately remains a moral norm, an expression of behavioural propriety. "

"On Philosophy" Events Series: Poster Archive (2020-Present)

Editorial Team

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Editorial

"On Philosophy" Events Series: Poster Archive (2020-Present)

Amia Srinivasan

20 min read

Conversations

"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."

Mladen Dolar

14 min read

Essays

"The Future of Authority?": An Essay by Mladen Dolar (Keywords: Psychoanalysis; The Enlightenment)

"Authority, irreducible to both coercion and knowledge, cannot simply be done away with."

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

19 min read

Conversations

"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

Conversations

"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."

THE PHILOSOPHER

Published since 1923

THE PHILOSOPHER

Published since 1923

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