Philosophers and Climate Change
Philosophers are uniquely positioned to help stop the worst effects of climate change. Most teachers have the ear of large numbers of students, whose...
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Can Philosophy Survive the Neoliberal Academy?
Note: This piece is adapted from Brandon Absher's presentation at the Eastern APA 2019, entitled "The Neoliberal University and What This Means to Society"
In...
Labels of Love Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia
Over the course of 2017, I made ten episodes of a podcast called Labels Of Love under the aegis of my Metaphysics of Love...
The UnMute Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia
The following blog post is an excerpt from the introduction chapter of UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice (OUP, 2019).
The idea for...
Statistics Wars: Interview with Deborah Mayo
What is your work about?
The “statistics wars” reflect disagreements on one of the deepest, oldest, philosophical questions: How do humans learn about the world despite...
The Two Philosophers, One Podcast, No Problems Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia
https://open.spotify.com/show/5s1nMLywY5L23z3zKT2W27?si=SW_n66_sTcWvzD1CxoEYKg
I’m Liv and I am a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. My research involves the philosophy of time travel, looking at how...
Is There a Bat in Your Bias?
by Brian Glenney
Are philosophical thought experiments activating biases or intuitions? The very thing that makes a thought experiment powerful, how it attracts an actively...
On The Question of What It Means to be a Hindu Philosopher
In early December, I sat down with a member of my PhD cohort and had a conversation over coffee about what it means (to...
Why Ancient Greek Psychology is Still Valuable Today
Ancient Greek philosophy is rife with beautiful and interesting discussions of the soul. From the tripartite soul of Plato and Aristotle, to the intellectualism...
New Books in Philosophy Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia
New Books in Philosophy (NBiP) is a podcast where philosophers are interviewed about their newly-published books. Each episode runs for roughly one hour, and...