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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

Essays

"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

Essays

"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

The New Basics

"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."

Yarran Hominh

11 min read

Essays

"The Hope of Public Philosophy" by Yarran Hominh (Keywords: Knowledge; Action; Depression; Praxis)

"To live in hopeless times is not only subjectively to feel hopeless. It is for that feeling in a real way to reflect the way things are."

Angie Hobbs

15 min read

Essays

"Philosophy in the Agora: Past, Present and Future": An Essay by Angie Hobbs (Keywords: Public Philosophy; Argument; Stoicism)

"Philosophy, including and perhaps especially, public philosophy, is often best done in dialogue, as Socrates well knew."

Ian James Kidd

13 min read

Essays

"Character, Vices, and Authority" by Ian James Kidd (Keywords: Epistemology; Ethics; Virtue; Truth)

"Epistemic vices are fundamentally failures of our inner life, failures to relate or respond to epistemic values and ideals."

Linda Martín Alcoff

16 min read

Conversations

"A Particularly Wonderful Human Being": Linda Martín Alcoff on Charles W. Mills

"We had a really egalitarian relationship, and I have not found that to be the case too often with male academics."

Minna Salami

9 min read

The New Basics

"Desire": An Essay by Minna Salami (Keywords: Solitude; Sexuality; Oppression; Feminism)

"To the extent that desire is erotic, what would theories of desire be if women were makers, rather than bearers, of meaning?"

Drew Leder

15 min read

Essays

"The Absent Body (and Beyond)" by Drew Leder (Keywords: Dualism; Mind-Body; Self; Illness; Healing)

"The Platonic/Cartesian formulation captures an abiding element of human experience; the body can be a prison from which we long to be free"

Akeel Bilgrami

11 min read

Essays

"What is Alienation?" by Akeel Bilgrami (Keywords: Politics; Social Contract; Marx; Locke)

"What I will seek, then, is to uncover something about the underlying mentality that exemplifies the ideal of an unalienated life."

Kristina Lepold

6 min read

The New Basics

"Recognition": An Essay by Kristina Lepold (Keywords: Freedom; Agency; Personhood; Hegel; Honneth)

"Recognition is not just a moral or ethical concept, but also, and perhaps primarily, a political concept."

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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