Wall-to-Wall Unionizing on Campus: A Powerful Way to Change
This is a story of how Alex Wolf-Root and United Campus Workers Colorado have made some progress against precarity.
Could the Free Energy Principle provide insight into philosophy of mind?
“We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any point...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Disruption: Why Things Change
The purpose of the Recently Published Book Spotlight is to disseminate information about new scholarship to the field, explore the motivations for authors’ projects,...
The absurdity and necessity of rules during war
During the invasion of Ukraine, we have heard frequently terms like ‘war crime’ and ‘just war’. In a fight to the death, when your...
Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology: Spinoza’s Religion – Interview with Clare Carlisle
The central goal of this series is to explore the evolving relationship among faith, science and philosophy, with a focus on the import of...
The Psychology of Political Power: Does Power Corrupt or is it Magnetic to the...
In January 2022, I attended a conference on ‘Political Power, Morality and Corruption’. A Socratic dialogue with fellow scholars led me back to one question...
Medusa Moments in Psychoanalysis
It wasn’t long before Lev and I had what I call a Medusa moment. In such moments, the clinical atmosphere becomes stone-like, frozen in...
How to Run To, Not From: Chores, Cooperatives, & Grimy Learning
I do chores for my cooperative. I love doing them, since they keep me real in college. But the real issue is the structure of community behind them.
New Journal Announcement: The Saudi Journal of Philosophical Studies
Dear colleagues and fellow philosophers,
I would like to announce the establishment of a new journal in philosophy based in the Arab world: The Saudi...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Hegel’s Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic
Karen Ng is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, specializing in post-Kantian European philosophy, especially Hegel, German idealism, Marx, and Frankfurt School Critical...