...and a protector of the vulnerable. Such a characterization, it will be spiritedly argued, is rosy and unhistorical. Protecting the vulnerable? If anything, philosophy has only rubber stamped and intensified...
...up from what you’re saying is that there’s something really empty about a model of philosophy, even political philosophy or philosophy about public issues that takes itself to be external...
...of that). I see that practice as adjacent to philosophy, in that philosophy can be the normative intervention that comes after observing how people act – from how do people...
...a raving fanatic like Hitler, who believed a lot of crazy stuff, was bound to be right about some things. In philosophy, arguments that aim to undermine a belief or...
...allergy to these questions in relation to philosophy, because I wanted philosophy to be pure and good – far away from power, before it. I certainly don’t think philosophy is...
...he considers woman’s body an obstacle, a prison, burdened by everything that particularizes it” (Beauvoir 2011, 5). The final question in the journal entry prompt is: Having watched this scene,...
Having recently defended her dissertation entitled, “Zones of the Flesh and the Confined Bodies of Women,” Morey Williams currently works as Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy of Villanova...
Janice Dowell is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. Phil Action is a group dedicated to for-profit prison divestment at Syracuse University. Prisons For Profit Poster by Nikki...
...of the unforeseen.” Lynne Huffer Jeremy: Our discussion on Sappho makes me think of Kojin Karatani’s work on ancient philosophy. According to Karatani, the kind of philosophy that was produced in imperial Athens...
...reasoning. Jon Ellis is an associate professor of philosophy at UC Santa Cruz and the founding director of UCSC’s Center for Public Philosophy. He works primarily in epistemology and philosophy...
