"Are We Decent Deep Down?": David Livingstone Smith reviews "Humankind" by Rutger Bregman
"A large part of human nature is our capacity to use culture to engineer human nature itself, for good or for ill."
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Christine Korsgaard
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"On the Value of People and Animals" by Christine M. Korsgaard (Keywords: Kant; Singer; Ethics)
"What could justify this difference between the way we treat human beings and the way we treat the other animals?"
Cary Wolfe
12 min read
"What Was 'The Animal'?: Ontology and its Discontents" by Cary Wolfe (Keywords: Language; Lifeworld; Derrida)
"How did human beings ever find it remotely plausible that the world is neatly riven by an ontological divide?"
Elizabeth Anderson
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"Beyond Bullshit Jobs": An essay by Elizabeth Anderson (Keywords: Work Ethic; Max Weber; David Graeber)
This is an edited transcript of a talk Professor Anderson gave at an event organized by The Philosopher at Conway Hall, London on 13th...
Peter Wolfendale
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"Artificial Bodies and the Promise of Abstraction": a conversation with Peter Wolfendale (Keywords: Philosophy of Mind; Phenomenology; Embodiment)
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...
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
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"Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference" by Olúfémi O. Táíwò
"Deference epistemology responds to real, morally weighty experiences of being put down, ignored, sidelined, or silenced."
Luna Dolezal
14 min read
"Intercorporeality and Social Distancing": An Essay by Luna Dolezal (Keywords: Phenomenology; Embodiment; Technology; Frantz Fanon)
Image © Megan Diddie As the coronavirus pandemic has made a swift advance across Europe, most of us have found ourselves engaging in the...
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
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"What is 'We'?": An Essay by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan (Keywords: Group Identity; Nationalism; Multiculturalism)
This semester, I gave my students a confounding assignment. I asked them to write a “non-representative representation” of a community to...
Moya Mapps
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"Technology, Testimony, and The Black Lives Matter Movement": An Essay by Moya Mapps (Keywords: Epistemic Injustice; Systemic Racism)
As I write this essay, waves of protest are rolling across America. And not just America: all over the world, people are rising up in...
Various Authors
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"Time and Timelessness: Responses to Martin Hägglund's This Life": Essays by Frederick Neuhouser, Lea Ypi, and Jensen Suther
Of all the major religions, Buddhism enjoys the greatest respect and popularity among those who seek a model for a “spiritual life.” Even...
Jonathon Turnbull and Adam Searle
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"Anthropo(s)cene": Essays by Jonathon Turnbull and Adam Searle (Keywords: Posthumanism; Animals; Matter)
What follows are the first three installments of Adam Searle and Jonathon Turnbull's Anthropo(s)cene column on "Posthumanisms",...
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
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"Does the United States Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission?": An Essay by Olúfemi Táíwò (Keywords: Civil Rights; Slavery; Justice)
"African Americans have never been reconciled because America has never acknowledged the truth of what it did to black people."
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