ARTICLES | The Philosopher

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"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

Conversations

"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

Essays

"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

Essays

"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."

Jensen Suther

10 min read

Essays

"The Post-History of Alienation" by Jensen Suther (Keywords: Marx; Capitalism; Eudaimonia; Freedom)

"Under capitalism, politics consists in debating the general interest as a means to surreptitiously advancing one’s own special interest."

Joshua Habgood-Coote

11 min read

Essays

"Better Work" by Joshua Habgood-Coote (Keywords: Reality TV; Gig Economy; Manual Labour; Anti-Work)

"While even deskilled work requires complex capacities, we shouldn’t think that these kinds of work are skilled in the full-fat sense."

Finn Mackay

9 min read

The New Basics

"Queer" by Finn Mackay (Keywords: Feminism; Activism; Heteronormativity; Gender; Sexuality)

"At such a fraught political moment, it is worth reflecting on the fact that to be queer is to be strange and difficult to categorise."

Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed

11 min read

The New Basics

"Madness" by Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed (Keywords: Identity; Personhood; rationality; Recognition)

"Philosophy needs to reckon with the part it has played, and continues to play, in the epistemic and normative exclusion of madness."

Kieran Setiya

8 min read

The New Basics

"Temperament": An Essay by Kieran Setiya (Keywords: Self-Expression; Emotion; Truth; Epistemology)

"If philosophy aspires to knowledge, aren’t philosophers bound to deny that temperaments, rather than arguments, determine what they think?"

Peter West

6 min read

Essays

"On the 'Cancellation' of Berkeley" by Peter West (Keywords: History; Education; Culture Wars)

"It may be that Berkeley is emerging as something of a figurehead for a particular stance in the so-called 'culture wars'."

Andrew Stewart

12 min read

Essays

"The Roles of the Political Philosopher" by Andrew Stewart (Keywords: Metaphilosophy; Theory; Truth)

"Conceiving of political philosophy as somewhat like a religion helps one attain a synoptic view of its place in human history."

Carrie Jenkins

9 min read

The New Basics

"Love" by Carrie Jenkins (Keywords: Normativity; Eudaimonia; Marriage; Socio-Economic Status)

"To love eudaimonically is to love with good spirits: with supportive community, with help from friends, and so on."

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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