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William M. Paris
11 min read
"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
13 min read
"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
8 min read
"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."Â
Elizabeth Anderson and Alexis Papazoglou
14 min read
"Polarization and Talking Across Difference": Elizabeth Anderson in conversation with Alexis Papazoglou (Keywords: Democracy; Populism; Reparations; Pragmatism; John Dewey; Susan Neiman)
"Everything has been sorted and segregated so that people of different political parties have no opportunities to engage one another."
Andrew Bowie
10 min read
"The Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy" a conversation with Andrew Bowie (Keywords: Art; Language; Meaning; Epistemology; Modernity)
"If you think of meaning simply in semantic, verbal terms, you’re missing out much of what goes on in language."
Hossein Dabbagh
8 min read
"The Value of Philosophy in a Market-Driven World": An Essay by Hossein Dabbagh (Keywords: Education; Humanities; Neoliberalism; Ethics; Critical Thinking; Social Justice)
"The emphasis on immediate economic returns overlooks the long-term societal benefits of a populace well-versed in philosophical reasoning"
Aaron James Wendland
8 min read
"Circling Back to the University: Public Philosophy and Pedagogy in the 21st Century": An Essay by Aaron James Wendland (Keywords: Academia; Ethics; Ukraine War; Emmanuel Levinas)
"The dialectical link between our scholarly and civic activities implies that the future of public philosophy lies in the universities."
Jason Blakely
10 min read
"Ideology": An essay by Jason Blakely (Keywords: Politics; History; Culture; Scientism; Hermeneutics; Neoliberalism; Karl Marx; Clifford Geertz)
"When someone is lost in ideology, their politics appears natural, even scientific, and not historical and cultural."
Erin R. Pineda and Robin Celikates
18 min read
"Disobedience and Seeing Like an Activist": Erin R. Pineda in conversation with Robin Celikates (Keywords: Civil Rights Movement; Liberalism; Punishment; Liberation)
"I try to show that civil disobedience emerged within a civil rights movement that was deeply in conversation with anti-colonial movements."
Paul C. Taylor
22 min read
"Post-Post-Racialism: or the Evolution of Race-Thinking": A Conversation with Paul C. Taylor (Keywords: Metaphilosophy; Political Philosophy; Afropessimism; Aesthetics)
"The burden of philosophy is to provide the resources to tell ourselves stories so we can subject ourselves to self-scrutiny."Â
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