How Intergenerational Is the Academy? Into the Planetary Project
Intergenerational integrity reshapes the academy, beginning with the Earth that gave rise to us.
Is it okay to have kids if they would be better off not existing?
This post is a part of an ongoing biweekly series on philosophical pessimism and related positions. You can find other posts in the series...
Remembering Bruno Latour and His Contributions to Philosophy
With the death of Bruno Latour from cancer on October 9, the world lost a prominent and paradoxical figure whose deepest contributions are not...
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....
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...
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...
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.