Tag: Philosophy

Feminist arguments against body modification are a dead end.

Martha Nussbaum on her new book—and why a full development of our humanity requires developing our capacities to care for animals.

Despite debates about scientific certainty, we do not need 100 percent consensus on a scientific claim to accept it as true. 

In the Black existentialist tradition, freedom lies in the constant struggle for liberation.

Reflecting on three monumental works of modernism—James Joyce's Ulysses, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus—a hundred years on.

Trans-inclusive policies are essential, but efforts to establish them must not lose sight of the structural oppressions that trans people face. 

Where is the line between professional philosophy and self-help? And how did we end up with this stark divide?