The Vim Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia
The Vim Podcast is the podcast of a group of academic philosophers who have banded together to think about our current political environment. Our...
Do Ideas Matter to Philosophy? How Obsession with Recognition Blocks Diversity
When suffering from writer’s block, I spent much of my time in the library browsing through books that were shelved beside the ones I originally looked...
So You Want to Teach Some Chinese Philosophy?
Jonardon Ganeri has written a piece on this blog, with helpful suggestions on how non-experts may introduce materials from Indian philosophy into their thematically-organised...
How Kavanaugh’s Virginity Defense Normalizes Sexual Assault
*Content warning: contains graphic depictions of sexual assault
The past weeks have witnessed a number of arguments raised in Brett Kavanaugh’s defense that are all...
The Brainstorm Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia
I’ve always felt like a rookie when it comes to philosophy.
I grew up in a blue-collar home where work was done to put...
A Neuro-Philosophy of Dignity-Based Governance
The duality mind-body has ancient roots in philosophy, most notably with Plato, Descartes and others. In dualism, mind and body are contrasted as two...
Jean Gebser’s Structures of Consciousness and Biological Evolution
In The Ever-Present Origin, Jean Gebser suggests that both cultural and psychological processes can be parsed into five nonhierarchical “structures” or “mutations” of consciousness,...
A Puzzle Concerning Affirmative Action
Years ago the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Hispanics sponsored a symposium at the Eastern Division Meeting where a puzzling case was discussed....
The Panpsycast Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia
APA blog: Thanks so much for agreeing to be interviewed, Jack. For readers that may have never heard of the Panpsycast Podcast, what is...
Should We Stop Talking about “Minor Figures”?
Every now and then, I hear someone mentioning that they work on “minor figures” in the history of philosophy. For reasons not entirely clear...