"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."
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Angie Hobbs
15 min read
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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."
Ellen Clarke
13 min read
"The Post-Human Body": by Ellen Clarke (Keywords: Biology; Microbiome; Embodiment; Selfhood)
"There is a deep-rooted folk concept of the human organism, which assumes that our bodies are pure and uncontaminated by outside matter."
Karmen MacKendrick
14 min read
"But First, Nothing": by Karmen MacKendrick (Keywords: Metaphysics; Theology; Ontology; Kabbalah)
"Before anything can be, there must be made nothing; prior to this contraction, nothing is not – where, after all, would it be?"
Vincent Lloyd
7 min read
"Philosophy Born of Struggle" by Vincent Lloyd (Keywords: Black Philosophy; Old Age; Moods; Hope)
"We must ask what it means to do philosophy when we expect that the next generation will be worse off, in many ways, than our generation."
Hanneke Grootenboer
11 min read
"Visual Thinking: Art as a Form of Thought": Hanneke Grootenboer (Keywords: Art; Aesthetics; Space)
"If one needs a dwelling place to start thinking, an artwork can serve as a kind of shelter where thinking can take place. "
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