"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."
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Jeremy Fantl
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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."
Brian O’Connor
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"Idleness and Society": a conversation with Brian O'Connor (Keywords: Kant; Hegel; Enlightenment; Work; Autonomy)
What was it that motivated your book on idleness? It was actually an accident that brought me to it. I have always been interested in...
Josh Cohen
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"Ethics and the 'Faculty of Indifference'" by Josh Cohen (Keywords: Work Ethic; Scepticism; Cioran)
"Doesn’t the renunciation of one’s own energetic resources make less of a demand on the energetic resources of the world?"
Lori Gruen
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"What Motivates Us to Change What We Eat?": An Essay by Lori Gruen (Keywords: Animals; Ethics; Veganism; Empathy)
A good friend, and well-known philosopher, recently told me that the new “Impossible™ WHOPPER® Sandwich” being sold at Burger King will...
"Reproduction Rebellion!": An Essay by Eva von Redecker (Keywords: Activism; Capitalism; Care)
The feeling that something is wrong with our way of life has been around for a while – even among those who profit from it. Now, school...
Bill Adams
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"Digital Animals": An Essay by Bill Adams (Keywords: Animals; Cyborgs; Technology)
Artwork © Sam Knowles Recently, I was in northern Kenya, watching a reticulated giraffe as it chewed carefully at the soft leaves between...
Clare Chambers
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"Feminism, Marriage and Choice" A Conversation with Clare Chambers (Keywords: Liberalism; equality)
"There are lots of ways in which women have a much better situation than we did once. But equally there are ways in which it is much worse."
Brian O’Connor
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"Bertrand Russell's Idleness": An Essay by Brian O'Connor (Keywords: Work; Leisure; Education)
There are some popular photographic images of Bertrand Russell that come to mind when we hear his name. In them Russell smiles directly...
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