Reed-Sandoval reframes the question of immigration justice by focusing on the historical development and lived experiences of socially undocumented identity...
What is the relation between understanding and knowledge in science? Can we understand a scientific theory if it is false? Do we understand a scientific proposition we can’t elaborate or do anything with?
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Richard Polt, "Time and Trauma: Thinking Throug...
For some time, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger has been treated with a certain level of skepticism because of his engagement with the Nazi party...
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David Estlund, "Utopophobia: On the Limits (If ...
It is tempting to hold that any proposed principle of social justice is defective if it demands too much of people, given their proclivities...
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
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Megan Burke, "When Time Warps: The Lived Experi...
Burke considers the relationship of sexual violence to lived time by reexamining and building upon the work of Simone de Beauvoir, and in conversation with Judith Butler, María Lugones, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and many others...
If you thought Jacques Lacan’s essay on "Logical Time" was the psychoanalyst’s final word on the subject, then this interview has a lot to teach you...
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Travis Dumsday, "Dispositionalism and the Metap...
Dispositionalism is the view that there are irreducible causal powers in nature that explain why objects behave as they do...
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Katherine Hawley, "How to Be Trustworthy" (Oxfo...
It is obvious that in our day-to-day lives, a lot hangs on trust, and thus on whether those around us are trustworthy...
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
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Adrian Johnston, "A New German Idealism: Hegel,...
Johnston traces the development of Žižek's recent thought in detail, salvaging the key philosophical themes while also offering several criticisms and developments of his own...
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Maria Dimova-Cookson, "Rethinking Positive and ...
Dimova-Cookson offers an analysis of the distinction between positive and negative freedom building on the work of Constant, Green and Berlin...
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Manuel Heras Escribano, "The Philosophy of Affo...
Ecological psychology is one of a number of contemporary theories that explains the mind in terms of embodiment and environmental situatedness, rather than inner symbol manipulation by brains...
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Frederick Beiser, "Hermann Cohen: An Intellectu...
For those of you aware of the distinguished philosophical career of Hermann Cohen (1859 - 1918) and the absence of an intellectual biography in English, Beiser’s scholarship is a long time coming...
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John Danaher, "Automation and Utopia: Human Flo...
Danaher explores the issues facing us as we confront our own obsolescence. He defends the idea that a workless future is not only possible, but possibly utopian...
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Adriel M. Trott, "Aristotle on the Matter of Fo...
Trott argues for understanding the relationship of matter and form in Aristotle’s work on the model of a Möbius strip...
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Peter Adamson, "Philosophy in the Islamic World...
Adamson takes readers on a vivid – and accessible – journey through the intricate landscape of the philosophical world of Islam...
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Christopher Peacocke, "The Primacy of Metaphysi...
Peacocke argues for the idea that the metaphysics of the domain must always be involved – that one must always draw on facts about metaphysics to explain meaning but not vice versa..
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Julia Maskivker, "The Duty to Vote" (Oxford UP,...
When asked what democracy is, many of us instantly think of elections, and thus voting...
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
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Robert Talisse, "Overdoing Democracy: Why We Mu...
Talisse argues that contrary to what many democratic theorists have argued, democracy is something we can do too much of...
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
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Elijah Millgram, "John Stuart Mill and the Mean...
Mill’s life was in many respects unsatisfying – riven with anxiety and trauma...
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
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Dilek Huseyinzadegan, "Kant’s Nonideal Theory o...
Huseyinzadegan analyzes Kant’s political writings by attending to the role of history, anthropology, and geography in his thought...