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"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

Essays

"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

Essays

"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

Essays

"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. "

Nathan Oseroff-Spicer

15 min read

Reviews

"Everything You Love Has Gone Woke": Nathan Oseroff-Spicer reviews "Left Is Not Woke" by Susan Neiman

"Without clear descriptions, definitions, or examples of “woke”, it may seem Neiman is battling a series of straw-people."

Nima Bassiri

8 min read

The New Basics

"Brain": An Essay by Nima Bassiri (Keywords: Neuroscience; Selfhood; Ontology; Power; Governance)

"The primacy of the brain functions as a something of a barometer for how we have come to be governed."

Eva Meijer

17 min read

Essays

"Deep Listening and Democracy: Political Listening to Fellow Citizens and Other Beings": Eva Meijer

"Who can speak is a fundamental political question – both in the meaning of who is allowed to speak, and who is seen as a speaking being."

Francey Russell

10 min read

The New Basics

"Opacity": An Essay by Francey Russell (Keywords: Self-Knowledge; Moral Psychology; Literature)

"Self-knowledge emerges as an exercise of human agency, to be understood as the way in which one takes responsibility for one’s own mind."

Thomas Szanto

14 min read

Essays

"Why Should We Give a Damn? On Sharing Emotions" by Thomas Szanto (Phenomenology; Normativity)

"Emotions are based rather on affective concerns, concerns over what really matters to the subjects – what we “give a damn” about."

Dan Zahavi

14 min read

Essays

"We and I": An Essay by Dan Zahavi (Keywords: Phenomenology; Collective Intentionality; Selfhood)

"Selfhood is not only what allows us to mark our difference to others, it is also what permits us to share a perspective with them."

Tzuchien Tho

9 min read

Essays

"Analytic vs Continental Philosophy: The Weirding of the Divide": An Essay by Tzuchien Tho

"The phenomenon of 'continental' philosophy or even 'French theory' is a thoroughly Anglophone one."

Thomas Moynihan

10 min read

Essays

"Predicting the Future of Mind" by Thomas Moynihan (Keywords: History of Ideas; Evolution; Holism)

"While it may seem the thing we’re most fluent in, we’re actually strangers to mind, insofar as it is an unfinished and ongoing category."

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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