How rational are we? And if we are not rational, how could we tell, since we would have to rely on our reasoning to make that determination? Over the last...
Muhammad Ali Khalidi is Presidential Professor of Philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center. He is currently working on a book titled, Cognitive Ontology: Taxonomic Practices in the Mind-Brain Sciences, under contract...
...it? At the moment, I’m rereading Peter Lipton’s Inference to the Best Explanation and Muhammad Ali Khalidi’s Natural Categories and Human Kinds: Classification in the Natural and Social Sciences. Both books are deservedly...
If you’ve come within hailing distance of a philosophy talk in the past several years, you’ve no doubt become acquainted with the “finger.” No, not that finger. The finger in...
...Journal of Philosophical Practice 4.4 (Fall 2017) and is reprinted by permission of the Editor. Rami Ali Rami el Ali and is Assistant Professor and head of the philosophy program...
The current climate of soul-searching about race and racism has led to a wave of reactions among faculty at many universities. Numerous departments of philosophy, anthropology, political science, women’s studies,...
Muhammad Ali Khalidi is Presidential Professor of Philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center, where he has recently moved from York University in Toronto. He works primarily on philosophy of science, especially...
In April 2013 I diagnosed myself with a weird neuropsychological condition after listening to an episode of one of my favorite podcasts, This American Life. As usual, the episode contained...
