On Asking Dangerous Questions About Spinoza
Rachel Kadish recently published her third novel The Weight of Ink (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) in which the protagonist is a female philosopher in the...
Philosophy on the Small Screen
Ethics Matters is a new television philosophy series that addresses philosophical issues including freedom of expression, ethical consumption, rights, animals, and the environment. The twelve...
Humans versus Nature
From the call of the mountains to the preservation of wilderness, we wish to celebrate and protect nature as something precious. But what separates...
Open Letter on the Termination of Duquesne University Press
Duquesne University announced earlier this year that it will soon be closing Duquesne University Press after 90 years of operation. In response, one of...
Interview with Philosophical Fiction Writer Frances Howard-Snyder
Frances Howard-Snyder teaches philosophy at Western Washington University, but she prefers to explore ideas through fiction. She has been writing philosophical fiction for about five...
The Strangeness of Things
We assume that the world is made up of individual ‘things’. Yet from Heraclitus to high-energy physics, the search for what these might be...
Writing for the Ten Percent
The following is adapted from my advice to aspiring writers of philosophical fiction at the Philosophy Through Fiction workshop at Oxford Brookes last June.
I...
Plot as argument, argument as plot (Part 3)
This is Part 3 of a 3-part series "Plot as argument, argument as plot". Part 1: How I Came to Write a Philosophical Novel is available here....
Plot as argument, argument as plot (Part 2)
This is Part 2 of a 3-part series "Plot as argument, argument as plot". Part 1: How I Came to Write a Philosophical Novel is available...
Plot as argument, argument as plot (Part 1)
At the Fiction Writing for Philosophers Workshop at Oxford Brookes University in June 2017, Dr. Sara L. Uckelman, the published speculative fiction writer and...