Adding philosophical depth to anything and everything
The notion of a left-wing/right-wing political spectrum has been with us for a long time. Visualizing political stances is certainly helpful. However, people seldom question what the left-right spectrum actually signifies. People, even scholars, use the labels of “left” and […]
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Video Lecture. Click to watch. What is Political Philosophy?
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Humans are belief-motivated beings and being human, you are your beliefs. Animals and plants act, but they simply react to stimuli without an understanding of the context of their actions or why they are acting. Humans have ideas about things. […]
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My new monograph in critical theory has been published. Rethinking Misrecognition and Struggles for Recognition: Critical Theory Beyond Honneth. The book explores the nature of injustices and people’s efforts to gain justice. Here’s the listing description from the sales page: […]
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The idea of time travel has long captured the human imagination. What an exciting thought to be able to witness events in the past or see what will happen in the future! Time travel has been a staple of science […]
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Embedded video, “Why Do We Study Greek Philosophy?”; click to view. Text Transcript of “Why Study Ancient Greek Philosophy”: It may seem odd to study thinkers who wrote over 2,000 years ago. We don’t study scientists from ancient times, don’t […]
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Why do injustices continue to happen? We say it is because of prejudice but what is prejudice? It is difficult to fight something that we cannot define and one of the important tasks in philosophy is understanding what is behind social phenomena like prejudice. Recognition is the key.
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Paulo Freire on Education. In a previous article, I discussed some of philosopher Paulo Freire’s views on political conflict. Though he didn’t shy away from politics, Freire was first and foremost a philosopher of education. In this article, I want […]
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Since ancient times, philosophers have pondered the question of what it means to be a person. David Hume observed that we cannot say much definitively about our world because we do not have other worlds with which to compare it. […]
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It shouldn’t be a political debate, but somehow it is. What should we as a society do in response to the Coronavirus pandemic? Seems obvious to anyone with any humanity: save people’s lives. Bizarrely, some feel we shouldn’t spend efforts […]
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