There is a widely held belief, among professional philosophers and the world at large, that philosophy doesn’t make progress. This belief isn’t idle; philosophy’s...
This edition of the Recently Published Book Spotlight is on Peter Adamson's Philosophy in the Islamic World. Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient...
Philosophers often think about normativity just when doing normative philosophy. When we decide it's time to submit instead of revise, we often think we...
Philosophy is having a strange cultural moment. On the one hand, it is routinely presented as the quintessential example of an utterly useless academic...
In organizing and
movement-building circles, we often talk honorifically about our “fearless”
leaders: people who are unflinching, who are not afraid of any fight and who
never...
Elvira Basevich is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy at The Graduate Center, CUNY...
Origins
I am fortunate to teach in a district which supports choice in all aspects of its English/Language Arts curriculum. Our students must take English...
