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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.
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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,...
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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...
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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...