Philosophy in the Wild
Philosophy is about teaching. Specifically, teaching (and learning) to interrogate our views. I mean this in the broadest possible Sellarsean, hanging together-sense of the...
Weird Studies Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia
Dear JF,
So the APA blog has been kind enough to invite us to say something about our podcast. For the benefit of the blog’s...
What It’s Like to Be a Philosopher: Manuel Vargas
The APA blog is working with Cliff Sosis of What is it Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff’s long-form interviews with...
The Elucidations Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia
I completed my PhD in philosophy at the University of Chicago in 2015 (on generic statements, in case anyone is interested), and I currently...
Why Would We Want to Call People “Great Thinkers”? A Response to Julian Baggini
If you have ever been at a rock or pop concert, you might recognise the following phenomenon: The band on the stage begins playing...
An Excerpt from Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto
This article is an edited excerpt from Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto, with a Foreword by Jay L. Garfield (New York: Columbia University Press,...
The Philosophy Guy Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia
Hello everyone, Brenden Weber here, host of The Philosophy Guy, a podcast about the many ideas in philosophy that are popularized by our society...
A “Socratic” Dialogue (1965) by Hans-Georg Gadamer
Modeled on Plato’s dialogues, Hans-Georg Gadamer’s dialogue about tennis shares some strengths and weaknesses of the incorporated genre. Gadamer’s imitation adopts Plato’s concern with...
“Heidegger was a Nazi.” What now?
“B was a bigot” is a phrase that raises various questions. We can say it of various figures, both dead and alive. But this...
The Dawdlers Philosophy Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia
“If I exist, I am a living creature to whom ideas are incidents, like aeroplanes in the sky; they pass over, more or less...