"Novelty": An Essay by Emmalon Davis (Keywords: Knowledge; Genius; Pedagogy; Academia; Games)
"Academic philosophers are increasingly trained to see themselves as valuable only insofar as they can produce knowledge."
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Helen De Cruz
14 min read
"Sprezzatura and Wuwei: A Daoist Approach to European Courtly Grace": An Essay by Helen De Cruz (Keywords: Aesthetics; Skill; Beauty; Wonder; Flow; Music; Confucianism; Daoism; Self-Cultivation)
"The admiration that effortlessness invokes comes from a skill that lies beyond skill, which is achieved through mental emptiness."
Martin Hägglund and Lea Ypi
37 min read
"What is Hegelian Marxism?" and "Socalism and Freedom": Martin Hägglund and Lea Ypi in Conversation
"Our unfreedom under capitalism stems from how the purpose of our economy, of our life-sustaining activities, is already decided."
Philip Goff
11 min read
"The Glitter is in Everything" a conversation with Philip Goff (Keywords: Panpsychism; God; Meaning)
"I do think panpsychism is a picture of the world that is better than most for our mental and spiritual health!"
Stella Sandford
18 min read
"Kant's Legacy": A conversation with Stella Sandford (Keywords: Metaphysics; Knowledge; Race)
"One of the greatest challenges of the Critique of Pure Reason is that it asks us to rethink what we mean by ‘objectivity’."
Elvira Basevich
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"Agency": An Essay by Elvira Basevich (Keywords: Liberalism; Nonideal Theory; W.E.B. Du Bois)
"There are many nonideal scenarios that can negatively impact upon one’s capacity for rational deliberation."
Andy West
10 min read
"The House Always Wins. Or Does It?" Andy West reviews The Idea of Prison Abolition by Tommie Shelby
"The abolitionist is calling for such a radical reform of society that we actually don’t know how humans will behave in that new future."
Jonathon Hawkins and Peter West
15 min read
"A Democratic Approach to Public Philosophy" by Jonathon Hawkins and Peter West
"If academics want to increase uptake and funding, it seems plausible to suggest they must do something that is publicly interesting."
Stephen Darwall
18 min read
"Reparations for American Chattel Slavery" by Stephen Darwall (Keywords: Justice; Hierarchy; Law)
"Arguably, the function of the modern concept of race was to rationalize forms of oppression and subjugation like chattel slavery."
Gwilym David Blunt
13 min read
"Effective Altruism, Longtermism, and the Problem of Arbitrary Power" by Gwilym David Blunt
"The ethos of Silicon Valley is often described as ‘libertarian’, but it isn’t. It is deeply authoritarian."
Jana Bacevic
12 min read
"What Does It Mean to Think Together?" by Jana Bacevic (Keywords: Arendt; Debate; Political Life)
"What does it mean to think with others even if, or particularly when, our living conditions may not be conducive to thought?"
John Danaher
10 min read
"Enhancement": An Essay by John Danaher (Keywords: Enlightenment; Limits; Death; Technology; Brain)
"We may not like limits. They may frustrate us. But it is, arguably, only through embracing them that we can eke meaning out of existence."
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