"You Are Not An Algorithm": An Essay by Justin E.H. Smith (Keywords: Social Media; Subjectivity; Nick Bostrom)
You are not an algorithm. Neither am I. And yet we open our lives up to being at least partially algorithmised when we acquiesce in a...
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Adam Kotsko
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"Trump as Neoliberal Heretic": An Essay by Adam Kotsko (Keywords: Neoliberalism; Demonisation; Politics)
The 2016 Democratic presidential primary brought about an unexpected discussion of neoliberalism in US political discourse. The term,...
Anya Daly
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"Interrogating Lived Experience": An Essay by Anya Daly (Keywords: Phenomenology; Buddhism; Merleau-Ponty)
What do we do when we do philosophy? And what should we do? What method in philosophy is likely to resolve puzzles and lead to reliable,...
Timothy Williamson
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"Doing Philosophy": A Dialogue with Timothy Williamson (Keywords: Public Philosophy; Truth; Common Sense; Debate)
The phrase ‘doing philosophy’ has resonated with me since I was fifteen. I used to read a BBC magazine’s weekly transcripts of radio...
A.W. Moore
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"Finitude": a conversation with A.W. Moore (Keywords: Kant; Hegel; Wittgenstein; Metaphysics)
This interview was originally published in The Kantian Catastophe? Conversations on Finitude and the Limits of Philosophy , edited by...
Catherine Wilson
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"Philosophy as a Vocation": An Essay by Catherine Wilson (Keywords: Descartes, Kant, Charles Fourier; Early Modern Philosophy)
The cryptic inscription on the tomb of the French social theorist Charles Fourier reads ‘Attractions are Proportional to Destinies.’ What...
Jason Stanley
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"The Philosophy of Fascism": An essay by Jason Stanley (Keywords: Political Philosophy; Nationalism)
The concept of democracy is not tied to a particular time and place. Even if democracy originated at some point, perhaps 5th and 4th...
Katherine Ritchie
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"Finding Social Groups in Networks of Relations": An essay by Katherine Ritchie (Keywords: Social Metaphysics; Identity; Politics)
Identities and identity politics are steeped in controversy. Politicians and pundits are criticizing students and those on the left for...
Chi Rainer Bornfree
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"Different but Equal": An essay by Chi Rainer Bornfree
There are so many different ways we find ourselves enmeshed in the problem of difference. It’s a political problem, when nations or...
Lucy Allais
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"Transcendental Idealism": a conversation with Lucy Allais (Keywords: Kant, Metaphysics, Ethics)
This interview was originally published in The Kantian Catastophe? Conversations on Finitude and the Limits of Philosophy , edited by...
Béatrice Han-Pile
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"The Analytic of Finitude": a conversation with Béatrice Han-Pile (Keywords: Foucault, Kant, History of Philosophy)
Anthony Morgan: I was hoping you could begin by saying a few things about Foucault specifically as a philosopher, given that he is...
Alexander Douglas
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"Philosophy and Hope": An Essay by Alexander Douglas
‘The use of philosophy’, wrote J.M.E. McTaggart (1866-1925), ‘lies not in being deeper than science, but in being truer than...
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