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Recently Published Book Spotlight: Radical Democracy and Populism: A Thin Red Line?

Leonardo Fiorespino currently teaches ethics at the University of New York in Prague (UNYP). His research focuses on contemporary democratic theory, populism, and normativity...

How Not to Be Alienated from Your Own Life

Katherine talks to Zena Hitz about withdrawal, escaping social competition, and learning for its own sake.
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Philosophizing Contemplation: Towards a (Re)new(ed) Contemplative Philosophy

In this brief reflection, perhaps visionary statement, I want to take some intellectual risks (already long underway), in hopes of advancing what might be...
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Recently Published Book Spotlight: Sacred and Secular: Responses to Life in a Finite...

Donald. A Crosby is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Colorado State University, where he has taught for 36 years. He is the author of...
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology: Technology as Part of Nature

In this second to last piece of the Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology series, I frame the final interview to be published in...

Great Humanists Care about the People Facing Them

Must great humanists care about their students? A brilliant scholar thinks not, due in part to his reliance on Aristotelian practical reasoning. But look what happens when we emphasize relational reasoning in the first place.

Why do reparations arguments fail? 

This post is based on material that was presented at a colloquium session on Reparations at the 2022 APA Central. Frigault’s talk was entitled...

Acknowledge the Truth of Your Confusion: It’s Helpful

Owning the confusion that you honestly have in facing things is a key to philosophy. But this difficult, personally uncomfortable thing is professionally discouraged. Mark Fiocco explains why it shouldn't be.

How love and intimacy shaped philosophical thought

What if we could tell the history of philosophy through the history of philosophers’ love lives? Like the rest of us, philosophers are mere...
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Recently Published Book Spotlight: Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live...

Steven Nadler is Vilas Research Professor and the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also...