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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

Essays

"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

6 min read

Essays

"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

7 min read

Essays

"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...

"Time and Timelessness: Responses to Martin Hägglund's This Life": Essays by Frederick Neuhouser, Lea Ypi, and Jensen Suther

Various Authors

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Essays

"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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Essays

"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",...

"Does the United States Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission?": An Essay by Olúfemi Táíwò (Keywords: Civil Rights; Slavery; Justice)

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

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Essays

"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."

Jemima Repo

7 min read

Essays

"Unlearning Gender": An Essay by Jemima Repo (Keywords: Sex/Gender; Feminism; History of Ideas; Foucault)

"Sex/gender is an ontological framework that structures the realities of sexed being into two orders: the biological and the cultural."

Jeremy Fantl

11 min read

Reviews

"The Epistemologist's Moment": Jeremy Fantl reviews "Knowing Our Limits" by NAthan Ballantyne

It’s our time. Or so philosophers like to think. Technological and cultural developments over the last 30 years have provided concrete...

Linda Martín Alcoff

11 min read

Essays

"Why Do Social Identities Matter?": An Essay by Linda Martín Alcoff (Keywords:

Image © William Eckersley To be is to be recognized, Hegel argued. And the reason, by his thinking, was not so much psychological as...

Beth Lord

6 min read

Essays

"Our Feelings are Not Our Own": An Essay by Beth Lord (Keywords: Affect; Spinoza; Rationality; Daniel Kahneman)

The book that had the greatest impact on my thinking in 2018 was not a philosophy book. It was Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel...

Mara van der Lugt

19 min read

Essays

"Pessimism": An Essay by Mara Van Der Lugt (Keywords: Suffering; Fatalism; Ethics; Schopenhauer)

"While it is deeply mistaken to suggest that pessimism is the same as fatalism, the concern behind this is nevertheless a valid one."

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

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