"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."
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Nima Bassiri
8 min read
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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."
Peter Wolfendale
20 min read
"The Concept of Concept": A Conversation with Peter Wolfendale (Keywords: Truth; Reality; Cognition)
"Concepts are fundamentally determined by their relations to one another, so it’s hard to tinker with them in isolation."
Lee A. McBride III
11 min read
"What is Insurrectionist Ethics?" by Lee A. McBride III (Keywords: Pragmatism; Naturalism; Ethics)
"I aspire to do philosophy in the world, recognizing human finitude, conceptual and perceptual limitations, and bias."
Carlos Alberto Sánchez
14 min read
"Being and Accident: A Mexican Ontology" by Carlos Alberto Sánchez (Keywords: Being; Nothingness)
"We can understand Mexican ontology as a means to push back against inherited and imposed ontological schemas of all sorts."
Todd McGowan
14 min read
"The Universality of Non-Belonging" by Todd McGowan (Keywords: Inclusivity; Identity; Film Studies)
"Inclusivity sees non-belonging as the contingent product of an unjust order that it strives to eliminate."
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