APP EDITORS’ NOTE: The essay below, Stephen Turner’s “Beyond the Academic Ethic,” appearing here in serial form, originally appeared in F. Cannizzo and N. Osbaldston (eds.), The Social Structures of Global Academia (London/New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. 35-52, and is reproduced by permission. Stephen Turner is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of … [continue reading]

Table of Contents I. Introduction II. Phildialogues III. Principled-Negotiation-&-Participatory-Decision-Making IV. Kialo V. Meta-Kialo VI. Conclusion You can also read or download a .pdf of the complete version of this essay HERE. I. Introduction What can philosophy do for humanity? —Philosophy not only can but also should enable and guide us in daring to think, write, … [continue reading]

APP EDITORS’ NOTE: The essay below, Stephen Turner’s “Beyond the Academic Ethic,” which will appear here in serial form, originally appeared in F. Cannizzo and N. Osbaldston (eds.), The Social Structures of Global Academia (London/New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. 35-52, and is reproduced by permission. Stephen Turner is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the … [continue reading]

INTRODUCTORY NOTE: British politics is lurching along a depressing and repressive path, stirring up a witches’ brew of neo-liberalism and neo-fascism: but on the much more hopeful side, there’s also a new critical-dignitarian, edgy, and thoroughly push-backarian philosophical, social, and political ferment on the rise in London, recalling the heady days of politicized punk and The … [continue reading]

Table of Contents I. Introduction II. The Standard Conception of Morality II.1 The Moral Question and The Meaning Question II.2 How Ethics Relates to Morality II.3 How Morality Relates to Rationality II.4 Six Famously Hard Cases III. Three Classical Challenges to the Standard Conception of Morality III.1 Moral Relativism III.2 Eight Logical Principles of Human … [continue reading]

You can also read or download a .pdf version of this essay HERE. The task [of understanding free agency] requires some reflection on the organizational principles of living creatures, for it is only through such reflection … that we can start to understand where the difference really lies between, on the one hand those things … [continue reading]

Table of Contents I. Introduction: How to Go Beyond The Mind-Body Politic II. They Fuck You Up: Families and Sociality III. There Is No Love: Intimacy and Sociality IV. Lonely Are the Brave and the Millennials: Friendships and Sociality V. “Louis, I Think This is the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship”: Camaraderie-&-Solidarity, Identity, and Utility … [continue reading]

Borderless Philosophy‘s Editorial Team, whose members currently are: Dennis Earl (Coastal Carolina Univ., USA) https://www.coastal.edu/academics/facultyprofiles/humanities/philosophyandreligiousstudies/dennisearl/, Robert Hanna (Independent, USA) https://colorado.academia.edu/RobertHanna, Michelle Maiese (Emmanuel College, USA) http://www.emmanuel.edu/academics/our-faculty/michelle-maiese.html, Pablo Muchnik (Emerson College, USA) https://www.emerson.edu/faculty-staff-directory/pablo-muchnik, Otto Paans (Independent, Netherlands) https://tu-berlin.academia.edu/OttoPaans, and Hugh Reginald (Independent, Canada) (Editorial Team Leader), is pleased to announce a Third and Final Call for … [continue reading]

Table of Contents I. Introduction II. The Standard Conception of Morality II.1 The Moral Question and The Meaning Question II.2 How Ethics Relates to Morality II.3 How Morality Relates to Rationality II.4 Six Famously Hard Cases III. Three Classical Challenges to the Standard Conception of Morality III.1 Moral Relativism III.2 Eight Logical Principles of Human … [continue reading]