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Philosophy
Interviews with philosophers about their new books.
October 10, 2026
Silence in Mood Disorders
Silence is frequently considered negative or harmful in both everyday life – for example, when we are silenced – as well as in psychiatry, where pover…
September 10, 2026
Kin Matters
What is kinship? This central question in cultural anthropology is standardly answered in terms of culturally constructed relationships that are uncon…
September 3, 2026
Political Philosophy
Can laws be unjust and yet remain, in some sense, morally legitimate? In Political Philosophy: The Puzzle of Legitimate Injustice (Princeton UP, 2026)…
July 10, 2026
Foundations for Metasemantics
A theory of semantics is a theory of what a person means when they use a word: for example, that when someone uses the word “cat” they refer to cats, …
June 13, 2026
When Metaphysics Meets Biology
Central to modern biology and the study of life is the concept of the organism—roughly, a body with interconnected parts that make specific contributi…
June 3, 2026
The Meaning of It All
You can stock your life with important work, relationships, activities, and art, and yet, you can still ask: what's the point of it all? Almost every …
May 24, 2026
Sideways Selves
How does coloniality shape the sociosomatic possibilities of our bodies? More importantly, how do gender-nonconforming people not only resist the limi…
May 10, 2026
Consciousness is Motor
When it comes to consciousness, William James is well-known for his descriptions of it rather than his theory of it and its relation to the body. In C…
April 10, 2026
A Drive to Survive
The cybernetic tradition in cognitive science analyzes the purposive behavior of many complex systems – from sensory-guided missiles to sensory-guided…
April 5, 2026
Justice and Reciprocity
Andrew Lister's Justice and Reciprocity (Oxford University Press, 2024) examines the place of reciprocity in egalitarianism, focusing on John Rawls's …
March 3, 2026
Epistemic Ecology
Humans are highly inquisitive, yet fallible and cognitively limited. How can we improve our epistemic lot despite our limitations? In Epistemic Ecolog…
February 18, 2026
So Unimaginable a Price
What happens if we turn to James Baldwin, not just for the amazing quotations and excellent photos, but as a critical theorist? What if we read his no…
February 10, 2026
The Units of Life
While we tend to think of biological individuals in terms of paradigmic cases – a dog, a starfish, a bacterium – our ordinary criteria for distinguish…
February 1, 2026
The Anatomy of Justice
“Liberal egalitarianism” refers to a family of political views that are “liberal” in taking individual rights to be of premier importance and “egalita…
January 10, 2026
Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation
How do scientists reason when they posit unobservables to explain their observed results? For example, how did Watson and Crick reason that DNA had a …
December 16, 2025
Carnalities
How can habits of racialization be affected by art, in its reception and its creation? How can a carnal aesthetics help us understand Latinx life? Wha…
November 10, 2025
Rethinking Metaphysics
The word “metaphysics” conjures up thoughts of very hard questions about reality and deep, perhaps unresolvable, metaphysical mysteries. But is that t…
October 20, 2025
Unbecoming Persons
How should one live? What should one do? And what do these questions have to do with being a good person? In Unbecoming Persons: The Rise and Demine o…
October 10, 2025
Cyborg Rights
Until recently, no one could access the detailed contents of your mind directly the way only you can. This level of protection of our mental data was …
September 10, 2025
Presentist Social Functionalism
Humans live in richly normatively structured social environments: there are ways of doing things that are appropriate, and we are aware of what these …