Philosophy in the Contemporary World: The Banality of Rumor
“Since choice as a decisive factor in self-preservation has to do with appearances, and since appearance has the double function of concealing some interior...
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Trump at the Border
On Thursday, April 12 and Tuesday, April 24, 2018, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley philosophy department held roundtable events on Donald Trump....
How to Disagree, or Experiments in Social Construction
A professor in Cleveland explores a triple analogy: social practice art / philosophy as a way of life / so-called "radical" pedagogy
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: The Double Consciousness of a Black Muslim American
I shudder to think what the backlash against the Muslim community would have been if Mark Anthony Conduitt, the Austin bomber and the domestic...
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Totalitarianism in Our Time
By Nathan Eckstrand
Several dystopian classics became bestsellers—1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and The Handmaid’s Tale—following Donald Trump’s election, presumably by people who wished...
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: After September 11th, A Permanent State of Exception?
After the September 11th terror attacks, Western broadcast media repeatedly trumpeted the refrain that somehow ‘everything was different!’ than before that shocking event, and...
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Educating The Just Citizen In The Cave of Charlottesville
When one reflects upon the terrorist attack that occurred in Charlottesville Virginia that resulted in one death and nineteen injuries, it is of the...
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: The Philosophy of Food
Very few things are so important to our lives as food, but most of us don’t think much about it. Sure, we think about...
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: The Disordered Soul and Presidency of Donald J. Trump
By chance the 2016 presidential season found me teaching a course I regularly offer called "Person and Society." The animating idea behind the course...
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Reflections on Charlottesville
The following text is a revised transcript of a talk Lewis Gordon gave to the Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) as part of...