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Philosophy
June 20, 2022
How Things Are
An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics
Mark Siderits
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Malcolm Keating
Mark Siderits’ How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2022) is a wide-ranging survey of how Buddhist philosophers think about the nature of the world. The …
Philosophy
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Philosophy
June 10, 2022
Immaterial
Rules in Contemporary Art
Sherri Irvin
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Carrie Figdor
Art forms have rules, usually implicit, that govern the experiences that artists want their audiences to have: for example, a representational painting should be hung right-side-up, the same sort of …
Philosophy
May 20, 2022
Metaphysical Emergence
Jessica M. Wilson
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Carrie Figdor
Is a tree nothing but its material makeup, or does reality include trees above and beyond what they are made of? How about consciousness – nothing but neural activity, or …
Philosophy
May 13, 2022
Entropic Philosophy
Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation
Shannon M. Mussett
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Sarah Tyson
Everything is breaking down. Chaos is increasing. Entropy is not just a metaphor, although it also that. In Entropic Philosophy: Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022), Shannon M …
Philosophy
May 3, 2022
Public Reason and Political Autonomy
Realizing the Ideal of a Civic People
Blain Neufeld
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Robert Talisse
According to a familiar picture, a democracy is a free society of self-governing equals. This means that democratic citizens have a duty to participate in the processes of democratic governance …
Philosophy
April 20, 2022
Language, Limits, and Beyond
Early Wittgenstein and Rabindranath Tagore
Priyambada Sarkar
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Malcolm Keating
What does a Bengali intellectual and poet have in common with a British-Austrian logician and philosopher? In Language, Limits, and Beyond: Early Wittgenstein and Rabindranath Tagore (Oxford University Press, 2021) …
Philosophy
April 12, 2022
Wittgenstein's Artillery
Philosophy as Poetry
James C. Klagge
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Carrie Figdor
“One should really only do philosophy as poetry.” What could Ludwig Wittgenstein have meant by this? What was the context for this odd remark? In Wittgenstein’s Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry …
Philosophy
April 1, 2022
Learning from Our Mistakes
Epistemology for the Real World
William J. Talbott
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Robert Talisse
The enterprise of Western epistemology has largely been devoted to a collection of issues concerning the definition and analysis of knowledge. What makes knowledge different from true belief? When is …
Philosophy
March 21, 2022
Seen and Not Heard
Why Children's Voices Matter
Jana Mohr Lone
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Sarah Tyson
What happens when we take children seriously as philosophical thinkers? What if we try to hear them about topics such as climate change, solitude, and the meaning of friendship? In …
Philosophy
March 10, 2022
Metaphysical Animals
How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman
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Carrie Figdor
What are the proper things for a philosopher to worry about? And who should be able to worry about them? These two questions, raised in the context of the disruptions …
Philosophy
March 1, 2022
The Case for Rage
Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle
Myisha Cherry
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Robert Talisse
According to a broad consensus among philosophers across the ages, anger is regrettable, counterproductive, and bad. It is something to be overcome or suppressed, something that involves an immoral drive …
Philosophy
February 21, 2022
Buddhist Ethics
A Philosophical Exploration
Jay L. Garfield
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Malcolm Keating
In Buddhist Ethics: A Philosophical Exploration (Oxford University Press, 2022), Jay Garfield argues that Buddhist ethics is a distinctive kind of moral phenomenology whose ethical focus is not primarily cultivation …
Philosophy
February 11, 2022
Causation with a Human Face
Normative Theory and Descriptive Psychology
James Woodward
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Carrie Figdor
How do we reason about causal relationships, how do we determine what the causal relatiomships in nature are, and how are these two things – causal cognition and causation – …
Philosophy
February 1, 2022
Conceiving People
Genetic Knowledge and the Ethics of Sperm and Egg Donation
Daniel Groll
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Robert Talisse
In the United States, tens of thousands of children are conceived every year with donated gametes. When people decide to create a child with donated gametes, they’ll typically have to …
Philosophy
January 20, 2022
The Analects: A Guide
Erin M. Cline
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Malcolm Keating
Probably the most well-known Chinese philosopher around the world is Kongzi, typically called by his Latinized name, “Confucius.” And yet he did not write a single book. Rather, his students …
Philosophy
January 10, 2022
Creolizing the Nation
Kris F. Sealey
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Sarah Tyson
Can the concept of the nation be a resource for liberatory political struggle? Are the dangers of nationalism simply too great? In Creolizing the Nation (Northwestern UP, 2020), Kris F …
Philosophy
December 31, 2021
Grief
A Philosophical Guide
Michael Cholbi
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Robert Talisse
We think of grief as a normal response to the death of a loved one. We’re familiar with the so-called “five stages” of grief. Grief seems as an emotional episode …
Politics & Polemics
December 20, 2021
Intolerable
Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980)
Edited by Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn
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Kirk Meighoo
Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980) (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), edited by Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, is a groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault …
Philosophy
December 1, 2021
Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States
Should Citizens Pay for Their States' Wrongdoings?
Avia Pasternak
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Robert Talisse
We tend to think that states can act wrongfully, even criminally. Thus, we also tend to think that states can be held responsible for their acts. They can be made …
Philosophy
November 19, 2021
Reconsidering the Life of Power
Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy
James Garrison
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Malcolm Keating
Reconsidering the Life of Power: Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy by James Garrison (SUNY Press 2021), argues that the tradition of Confucian philosophy can provide …
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