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Racial redress should be modeled on the global anticolonial tradition of worldbuilding.
An anthropologist reflects on West African divination as a case study in hope during times of great uncertainty.
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.
Images seized from enslaved people are not private property to be owned, but ancestors to be cared for.
Three new books explore the gap between sex that is good and sex that is virtuous, making the complexities of desire central to our conversations about sexual ethics.
Knowing takes radical collaboration: an openness to being persuaded as much as an eagerness to persuade.
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Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
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