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Michael Marder

5 min read

Essays

"When Viruses Help": An Essay by Michael Marder (Keywords: Bacteria; Biology; Evolution)

"We should problematize current political discourses that declare a 'war on the virus.'"

Linsey McGoey

10 min read

Reviews

"Hopeful Ignorance": Linsey McGoey reviews A Passion for Ignorance by Renata Salecl

"It is not knowledge but rather ignorance that helps us to believe that new types of emancipation are someday possible."

Alexander Douglas

10 min read

Reviews

"The Rewilding of Philosophy": Alexander Douglas reviews "The Parmenidean Ascent" by Michael Della Rocca

"Distinctions can be made among things, but only from some or other arbitrary point of view."

Joanna Borkowska

7 min read

Essays

"The Art of Nothing": An Essay by Joanna Borkowska (Keywords: Metaphysics; Creativity; Nature)

"For me, the zone of nothingness is a sacred space, a kind of pre-creative state that is essential to my work."

Jana Bacevic

16 min read

Essays

"Epistemic Autonomy and the Free Nose Guy Problem" by Jana Bacevic (Keywords: Knowledge, Trust, Expertise)

"Is 'trust in science' just the flipside of trust in religious or, for that matter, political authority?"

Veromi Arsiradam and Adam Ferner

18 min read

Essays

"'Having' Children: The Choice between Procreation and Adoption" by Veromi Arsiradam and Adam Ferner (Keywords: Adoption; Parenthood; Ethics)

"Bringing a child into existence is one of the most environmentally impactful decisions anyone can make."

Bret W. Davis

29 min read

Essays

"Nothing Matters": An Essay by Bret W. Davis (Keywords: Zen; Kyoto School; Nihilism; Metaphysics)

"Have you ever woken up feeling like there’s no point in getting out of bed because, after all, nothing really matters?"

David Livingstone Smith

14 min read

Reviews

"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."

"On the Value of People and Animals" by Christine M. Korsgaard (Keywords: Kant; Singer; Ethics)

Christine Korsgaard

15 min read

Essays

"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

Essays

"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

14 min read

Essays

"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

18 min read

Conversations

"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...

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Published since 1923

THE PHILOSOPHER

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