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How four women defended ethical thought from the legacy of positivism.
Tinder and OkCupid should drop the gender binary. Doing so would help all users—queer and straight alike.
On the first English translation of Wittgenstein's early private notebooks.
On the first English translation of the Austrian poet’s critical writings, composed in the shadow of fascism.
Against the philosopher’s dying wish, the final volume of History of Sexuality has now been published. How should we approach it?
The Judge Rotenberg Center, a Massachusetts school, still uses electric shock therapy to punish disabled students. How can an entire field of mental health accept this as fine?
A recording of a virtual roundtable to honor the life and work of Charles W. Mills.
How philosophical thinking can make truthfulness possible even when the truth can barely be fathomed.
Nearly two years into a global pandemic, uncertainty has profoundly unsettled both our personal and political lives. In our Fall 2021 book, eleven thinkers consider its scientific, philosophical, and economic aspects.
Knowing takes radical collaboration: an openness to being persuaded as much as an eagerness to persuade.
His milieu was one of global, and specifically Palestinian, anticolonial struggle.
The more someone knows about us, the more they can influence us. We can wield democratic power only if our privacy is protected.
On the fate of Karl Popper’s idea of falsification.
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Essayist and Washington Post nonfiction book critic
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale, specialist in social and political philosophy
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and author of Elite Capture
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