"Otherworldly Science: Margaret Cavendish’s Critique of the Experimental Method" by Peter West
"The study of 'other worlds' can only be worthwhile if it ultimately helps us to better navigate the world which we currently inhabit."
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Kris Sealey
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"Other" by Kris Sealey (Keywords: Race; Critical Black Studies; Recognition; Pseudoscience)
"The racialization central to modernity orients otherness in terms of what is human, and what is, in some iteration, humanity’s 'other'."
Ajahn Sucitto
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"Finding Refuge": A Conversation with Ajahn Sucitto (Keywords: Buddhism; Mind-Body; Perception)
"We may have done amazing things with the rational mind in the centuries since Descartes, yet there is still pain, anxiety, and depression."
Michelle Bastian
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"Time" by Michelle Bastian (Keywords: Continental Philosophy; Metaphysics; Sociology; Capitalism)
"How societies should tell the time, including how they set their clocks, has not generally been seen as a philosophical problem."
Amie L. Thomasson
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"Philosophy as Conceptual Engineering " by Amie L. Thomasson (Keywords: Metaphysics; Metaphilosophy)
"Change the concepts, and you can change the inferences, and in turn you can change the social, legal, and even scientific practices."
William Davies
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"Feeling" by William Davies (Keywords: Facts; Knowledge; Mind-Body; Populism; Politics; Psychiatry)
"Feeling messes with the distinction between mind and body that is so foundational to modern concepts of the self."
Savannah L. Pearlman
13 min read
"Mutual Aid and a Pluralistic Account of Solidarity": An Essay by Savannah L. Pearlman
"There is something odd about the notion that merely sharing an identity feature with someone else is a sufficient basis for solidarity."
Serene J. Khader
15 min read
"What Should Feminists Want from a Conception of Autonomy?" An Essay by Serene J. Khader
"Relational conceptions of autonomy end up licensing various types of paternalism to which feminists should object."
Lani Watson
9 min read
"Knowledge"by Lani Watson (Keywords: Social Epistemology; Epistemic Injustice; Post-Truth; Norms)
"Epistemic injustice occurs paradigmatically in cases where a person is dismissed or disenfranchised as a knower."
Catherine Wilson
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"Was it Always True that Slavery was Wrong?": An Essay by Catherine Wilson (Keywords: Realism; Anti-Realism)
"If there is to be learning and progress, then the unit that has learned or made progress has to be seen as endowed with a history."
Maria Baghramian
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"The Politics of Relativism": An Essay by Maria Baghramian (Keywords: Truth, Rationality; Ideology)
"To accept that there are many equally valid perspectives on values, justifications and the world does not logically necessitate tolerance."
Maximilian Gregor Hepach
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"Is Climate Real?" An Essay by Maximilian Gregor Hepach (Keywords: Planet; Weather; Phenomenology)
"The concepts of interest to philosophers are often, at first sight, the ones that seem the most trivial."
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