Yearly Archives: 2018

The Elucidations Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia

I completed my PhD in philosophy at the University of Chicago in 2015 (on generic statements, in case anyone is interested), and I currently...

Black Issues in Philosophy: Gordon and Da Silva on Brazil and Africana Philosophy

This interview previously appeared in a special issue of EntreLetras Journal. I offer its reprint here in light of the recent elections in Brazil,...

Why Would We Want to Call People “Great Thinkers”? A Response to Julian Baggini

If you have ever been at a rock or pop concert, you might recognise the following phenomenon: The band on the stage begins playing...

An Excerpt from Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto

This article is an edited excerpt from Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto, with a Foreword by Jay L. Garfield (New York: Columbia University Press,...

What Are You Reading…On the Philosophy of Law

The origin of law is a vital question for society, and the preservation of a widely accepted source of authority is necessary for a...

Women in Philosophy: Philosophy’s Excluded Within

by Sina Kramer I was invited to speak to my current book, which Jane Anna Gordon reviewed in the "Black Issues in Philosophy" series here...

The Philosophy Guy Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia

Hello everyone, Brenden Weber here, host of The Philosophy Guy, a podcast about the many ideas in philosophy that are popularized by our society...

A “Socratic” Dialogue (1965) by Hans-Georg Gadamer

Modeled on Plato’s dialogues, Hans-Georg Gadamer’s dialogue about tennis shares some strengths and weaknesses of the incorporated genre. Gadamer’s imitation adopts Plato’s concern with...

The Dawn of AI Philosophy

There is more to artificial intelligence and philosophy than the questions we’re asking. The philosophical study of artificial intelligence (AI) remains in its infancy. Among...

Black Issues in Philosophy: Africana Philosophy and Depression

by Dana Francisco Miranda The white world, the only honorable one, barred me from all participation. A man was expected to behave like a man....

Deconstruction from the South: On Bruno Mazzoldi and Jacques Derrida

To promote dialogue among different philosophical traditions as equals, I claim here that the world is populated by a plurality of philosophical languages. In...

Diversifiying the Canon: Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa

Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa is an assistant professor at Vassar College, where she teaches courses on ancient philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of mental...

“Heidegger was a Nazi.” What now?

“B was a bigot” is a phrase that raises various questions. We can say it of various figures, both dead and alive. But this...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Man-Not

Tommy J. Curry is a Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is the author of The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the...

The Dawdlers Philosophy Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia

“If I exist, I am a living creature to whom ideas are incidents, like aeroplanes in the sky; they pass over, more or less...