Philosophy

Governing Transgender Identity

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

  • Paisley Currah
  • Robin Dembroff

How Philosophy Helps Us Find Our Way

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

  • Kieran Setiya
  • Anil Gomes

The Roots of War

To discern why we fight, we should ask why we do not.

  • Chris Blattman

Reconsidering the Good Life

Feminist philosophers Kate Soper and Lynne Segal discuss the unsustainable obsession with economic growth and consider what it might look like if we all worked less.

  • Lynne Segal
  • Kate Soper
  • Anthony Morgan

Post-Growth Pleasure

Final response: A “greened” economy is still a capitalist one.

  • Kate Soper

A Bourgeois Revolution

The critique of capitalism must take precedence over the critique of consumption.

  • Nanjala Nyabola

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Degrowth Is a Distraction

The distribution of gains is more important than GDP.

  • Jayati Ghosh

The Abundance Agenda

Doing less is not enough. We have to do more, and we have to do it better.

  • Will Rinehart

Ecology’s Utopian Vision

Conservation implies a new way of life.

  • Jackson Lears

The Fullness of Desire

Changing our habits of consumption is not enough.

  • Lida Maxwell

The Degrowth Economy

When it comes to growth, the devil is in the details.

  • Robert Pollin

Windows on Reality

How science works.

  • Philip Kitcher

From the Editors: The Politics of Pleasure

What if “post-growth living” could be an opportunity for greater pleasure, not less?

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen

Remembering Richard J. Bernstein

The wide-ranging philosopher had the uncanny ability to bring very different traditions into conversation.

  • Seyla Benhabib

The Animal Crisis Is a Human Crisis

The systems that harm animals go hand in hand with systems that harm humans. Combating them requires inter-species solidarity.

  • Alice Crary
  • Lori Gruen

Queering the Dating App

Tinder and OkCupid should drop the gender binary. Doing so would help all users—queer and straight alike.

  • M. Andler

The Burdened Virtue of Racial Passing

Though a means of escaping and undermining racial injustice, the practice comes with own set of costs and sacrifices.

  • Meena Krishnamurthy

Where Egalitarianism Went Wrong

—and what it still has to offer. A reading list on equality, Rawls, and the struggle for a more just world.

Neither Chaos Nor Quest: Toward a Nonnarrative Medicine

Narrative medicine claims to champion the experience of patients—but it does so by requiring that the sick “earn” their care by telling a redemptive tale about what is wrong with them.

  • Brian Teare

What It Means to Watch

On the uncanny relationship between film and reality.

  • Francey Russell

Seeking Certainty in Uncertain Times

An anthropologist reflects on West African divination as a case study in hope during times of great uncertainty.

  • Michael Jackson

In Pursuit of Racial Justice: The Life and Thought of Charles W. Mills

A recording of a virtual roundtable to honor the life and work of Charles W. Mills.

Imagine the Worst

How philosophical thinking can make truthfulness possible even when the truth can barely be fathomed.

  • Oded Na’aman

Five Years without Cedric Robinson

A collection of our best essays on the distinguished political theorist, racial capitalism, and the Black radical tradition.

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