"Imagination": An essay by Amy Kind (Keywords: Epistemology; History of Philosophy; Reason; Perception; Thought Experiments)
"Just as perception is not the enemy of reason despite its fallibility, neither is imagination."
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David Shoemaker
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"Living a Wisecracking Life": David Shoemaker in conversation with Will Franken (Keywords: Humour; Morality; Absurdism; Deception; Stereotyping; Shame)
"Absurdity, most generally, consists in a disparity between our expectations or pretentions and reality."
Dan Taylor
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"Method": An essay by Dan Taylor (Keywords: History of philosophy; Authority; struggle; Metaphor; Causality; Kant; Foucault; Spinoza)
"Philosophy at the service of the authority’s demands for deference and submission might not really be philosophy at all."
Johnny Brennan
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"Trust and the Plea for Recognition": An Essay by Johnny Brennan (Keywords: Trustworthiness; Character; Personhood; Security; Human Nature)
"Trust has value in itself because it is an expression of our agency, even of what we might call our personhood."
Jana Schmidt
10 min read
"The Place of Hannah Arendt": Jana Schmidt reviews "We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience" by Lyndsey Stonebridge
"Politics is that activity which is seen most clearly by the one who has no place."
Elvira Basevich
10 min read
"Happy Caregiver Exploitation Day": An Essay by Elvira Basevich (Keywords: Motherhood; Upward Mobility; Reproductive Rights; Injustice; Identity; Rousseau)
"I want to be able to condemn the structural conditions of my exploitation without condemning the person I ended up becoming as a result."
Ignacio L. Moya
12 min read
"Transcendental Pessimism": An Essay by Ignacio L. Moya (Keywords: Metaphysics; Anti-natalism; Psychology; Schopenhauer; German Philosophy; History of Philosophy)
"if philosophical pessimism is to be seen as something more than a 'mere' temperament or attitude, what might this be?"
William M. Paris
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"Possibility": An Essay by William M. Paris (Keywords: Critical Philosophy; Freedom; Intersubjectivity; Utopia)
"When the category of possibility is in crisis, the intelligibility of collective action and cooperative life will be imperilled"
Henrique Carvalho and Anastasia Chamberlen
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"Questioning our Need for Punishment": Henrique Carvalho and Anastasia Chamberlen (Keywords: Justice; Hostile Solidarity; Public Philosophy; Sociology; Durkheim)
"We can perhaps summarise the philosophical problem of contemporary punishment outlined above as: it doesn’t work, and yet we need it."
Deryn Thomas
15 min read
"A Different Dream of Labour": Deryn Thomas reviews "Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living" by John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle (Keywords: Public Philosophy; Post-Work; Simone Weil; Hannah Arendt)
"The momentum of the pandemic has facilitated an important shift in the way many people think about wage labour, employment, and capitalism"
"Released from Prison?": Contributions from the Reimagining Re-entry Public Philosophy Group (Keywords: Punishment; Phenomenology; Home; Institutionalization; Education; Power)
"Home is our anchor point within reality which gives us orientation and allows us to set out in new directions."
Yoko Arisaka
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"Global": An Essay by Yoko Arisaka (Keywords: History of Philosophy; The Canon; Language; Eurocentrism)
"Our non-global conception of philosophy is rather a latecomer, while still establishing itself as the history of philosophy."
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