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Approaching Philosophy

...is just this: How to read Plato in the light of his paradox? This problem—and the repeated loss of it in the tradition—haunts my work; it is the lead given...

The Curse, the Prison Cell, and the Lynching Mob: Revisiting the Limits of Law with Paul, Boethius, and the Coen Brothers

...can entirely create or sustain the best model of community that a given group might want to achieve. However worthy a set of laws may be (even if they are...

Sylvia Wynter and the Concept of the Homocene

...argued by the likes of Cheikh Anta Diop and Jacob Pandian, derives from its inability to develop an etic perspective on Man, which would in turn involve comprehending how Man’s...

Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology: Beyond Space and Time

...one. The argument, then, gains credence given modern physics’ increasingly extreme theories about the nature of reality.  It also correctly acknowledges the revolutionary nature of technology – which I share...

Jacob Given

Jacob Given is a graduate student at Villanova University. His interests are at the intersection of systematic theology and spirituality. He is particularly interested in thematizing the act of systematic...

Contributors

...The Best Public Speaking Book. Editor of the APA Blog's Syllabus Showcase series, find him blogging elsewhere online at EthicsBowl.org. Jason Stanley Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of...

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Diversifying Tenure-Line Faculty

...of writing. In the last ten years we have hired 10 philosophers: Jonah Schupbach, Dustin Stokes, Jacob Stegenga, Melinda Fagan, Anne Peterson, Erin Beeghly, Carlos Santana, Natalia Washington, Joyce Havstad...

Interview with Mabogo P. More

...wider audience than one solely of philosophers and intellectuals. The aim here, given that the book was part biography and part philosophy, was to avoid speaking with the abstract voice...

Syllabus Showcase: Jacob J. Andrews, Ethics in Classical China

...that the two books paired beautifully and began to sketch a course that introduced Chinese philosophy to non-philosophers using those two books. Three years later, I was given the opportunity...