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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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Essays

"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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Essays

"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)

Eva von Redecker (translated by Lucy Duggan)

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Essays

"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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Essays

"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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Conversations

"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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Essays

"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...

Justin E.H. Smith

7 min read

Essays

"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...

Adam Kotsko

8 min read

Essays

"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

6 min read

Essays

"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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Essays

"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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Conversations

"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...

THE PHILOSOPHER

Published since 1923

THE PHILOSOPHER

Published since 1923

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

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