What Are You Reading…On Hinduism
The philosophy underlying Hinduism contrasts in many interesting ways with the various philosophical traditions that come from the Western world. There is a search...
What Are You Reading…On Intimacy and Sex
Love manifests itself in many ways, and there are many kinds of love for which this is the case. One type of love is...
Questions About Heaven
By Steven M. Cahn
For many theists the importance of believing in God rests on the possibility of a blissful afterlife. Yet the notion of...
What Are You Reading…On Humor
Recently, I came across a new Harry Potter chapter written by a predictive text computer program. The organization that organized this, Botnik, has had...
Negativity and Democracy: Marxism and the Critical Theory Tradition
Vasilis Grollios, Negativity and Democracy: Marxism and the Critical Theory Tradition, Routledge, 2017. (Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory Series)
Despite the crisis and the fact...
What Are You Reading…On David Hume
David Hume has had a profound impact on many intellectuals. My first encounter with him came at the end of an undergraduate class entitled...
What Are You Reading…On Dialogue
While having dinner tonight, something slightly upsetting happened. I was sitting with another teacher, talking about a variety of topics, when the conversation moved...
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: The Philosophy of Food
Very few things are so important to our lives as food, but most of us don’t think much about it. Sure, we think about...
What Are You Reading…On Migrancy
This week I saw a disturbing report on CNN about the developing migrant crisis in Libya. Because Libya is a convenient gateway to Europe,...
Badiou, the Event, and Psychiatry, Part 2: Psychiatry of the Event
The first piece in this two-part series is here.
What will philosophy say to us? It will say: “We must think the event.” We must...