...up smugly condescending and isolated, unable to see beyond our own perspectives. Acknowledgments: Thanks to Ian Olasov, Julinna Oxley, Elise Woodard for helpful comments. Thanks to the Social Epistemology Network...
Ian Olasov is a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center and the founder of Brooklyn Public Philosophers, a philosophy event series for a general audience. His book Ask a...
To view a contributors bio, click Hsiang-Yun Chen Hsiang-Yun Chen is an assistant research fellow at The Institute of European and American Studies (IEAS) at Academia Sinica and works primarily...
...Ian Olasov, Kyle Robertson, and more. And this is not counting the number of people who are invisibly diversifying syllabi, curriculum, and teaching and advising styles. In sum, let’s diversify...
There is a widely held belief, among professional philosophers and the world at large, that philosophy doesn’t make progress. This belief isn’t idle; philosophy’s failure to make progress is a...
...that it might just be what saves philosophy from extinction. The Public Philosophy Network Executive Committee Nancy McHugh, President Evelyn Brister, Vice President Ian Olasov, Secretary Todd Franklin, Treasurer Tweet...
...(The New York Times) Erich Matthes, “Palmyra’s Ruins Can Rebuild Our Relationship with History,” Aeon Magazine Ian Olasov, “When Is a Lie a Lie? Trump, Journalism, and Objectivity,” Public Seminar...
For the past couple of years, Brooklyn Public Philosophers—the public philosophy event series I organize—has set up a booth at New York City farmers’ markets, block parties, book fairs, and...
