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More Than Species-Relative Goodness: What Children Teach Us

Over a decade ago, I was introduced to the works of Philippa Foot in a graduate seminar. I would not have predicted then that...

What Do We Do When We Talk about “Evil”?

Talk about “evil” is beside the point.

Wittgenstein, Feynman, and the Limits of Intuition and Objectivity in Quantum Theory

Richard Feynman, over the course of his long career, wanted to convince students and even the public that quantum theory does not make sense....
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Can Pessimists be Political?

This post is a part of an ongoing biweekly series on philosophical pessimism and related positions. You can find other posts in the series...
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Recently Published Book Spotlight: Cognition and Practice

Rafal Banka is Research Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy at University of Oxford in England. His areas of research include Chinese and Western...
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Reports from Abroad: Dr. Krishna Mani Pathak (Part 2)

This series questions and complicates what ‘reporting from abroad’ can mean in a globalised world that faces interconnected and local crises alongside forces grappling...

Think What Academia Does to People: Beauvoir contra Precarity

Under what conditions can your academic work be meaningful? De Beauvoir has an unsettling and extreme answer.
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A Pessimism Primer

This post is a part of an ongoing biweekly series on philosophical pessimism and related positions. You can find other posts in the series...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Why Machines Will Never Rule the World

In this video interview, Charlie Taben, editor of the Blog's Philosophy and Technology series, interviews the authors of Why Machines Will Never Rule the...
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Does charitable Kant interpretation buttress Eurocentrism?

In this post, I want to raise a worry about Kant and Eurocentrism. As someone who writes about Kant, it’s a worry I’ve been...