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Philosophy
Interviews with philosophers about their new books.
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 …
August 20, 2025
Stop Thief!
Why do so many philosophers value anarchy but refuse to call themselves anarchists? Why don’t philosophers draw on the classical anarchist tradition? …
August 10, 2025
Deflating Mental Representation
The human mind has the curious, even mysterious, ability to generate thoughts about things with which we are not in causal contact, such as when we th…
June 15, 2025
Critical Mixed Race Philosophy
What are dominant narratives of mixed race identity? What are those narratives doing, in everyday life and within philosophical discourse? How can att…
May 10, 2025
Operationism in Psychology
About 100 years ago, prominent psychologists Stanley Smith Stevens, Edward Tolman and Clark Hull spearheaded the idea of linking psychological concept…
April 20, 2025
Beyond Personhood
What does transphobic oppression have to do with sexism, heterosexism, and racism? How does a decolonial analysis help us understand trans oppression?…
April 10, 2025
The Philosophy of Theoretical Linguistics
Between the study of specific languages and the philosophy of language lies what Ryan Nefdt calls a “Goldilocks zone” of theoretical issues related to…
March 10, 2025
The Brain Abstracted
This book is available open access here. The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience (MIT Press, 2024), Mazvi…
March 1, 2025
Ecosovereignty
Part of what makes the challenges that collectively are called the “environmental crisis” so difficult is that the vocabulary we deploy in thinking an…
February 20, 2025
Race, Time, and Utopia
How does time figure in racial domination? What is the relationship between the capitalist organization of time and racial domination? Could utopian t…