Starting in August 2018, Philosophy Ripped From The Headlines! is being delivered in weekly installments. Every installment contains (1) a recent article or articles, (2) some follow-up thoughts for further reflection or discussion, and (3) a link for supplementary reading. 1. “How ‘Abolish ICE’ Went From Twitter Slogan To Winning Over Progressives And Dividing Politics” … [continue reading]

“Diogenes Sheltering in His Barrel,” by John William Waterhouse 146. The philosophy of borders, immigration, and refugees. Everyone was agog this past summer about US-Mexico border-control and immigration issues, split families, and the Trump Administration’s blatant xenophobia. But at the same time, as of 18 June 2018, a Gallup Poll showed that 45% of the … [continue reading]

Starting in August 2018, Philosophy Ripped From The Headlines! is being delivered in weekly installments. Every installment contains (1) a recent article, (2) some follow-up thoughts for further reflection or discussion, and (3) a link for supplementary reading. “Money For Nothing” By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian The New Republic, 29 AUGUST 2018 URL = https://newrepublic.com/article/150506/universal-basic-income-future-of-pointless-work Some … [continue reading]

The Editorial Team of Borderless Philosophy is pleased to announce a Second Call for Submissions for our second issue (2019). Borderless Philosophy is a new and highly progressive philosophy journal, whose first issue, Borderless Philosophy 1 (2018), can be found HERE. Borderless Philosophy publishes works of philosophy without any in-principle restrictions whatsoever as to length, … [continue reading]

Starting in August 2018, Philosophy Ripped From The Headlines! is being delivered in weekly installments. Every installment contains (1) a recent article, (2) some follow-up thoughts for further reflection or discussion, and (3) a link for supplementary reading. “The Truth about Income Inequality, in Six Amazing Charts” By Michael Hiltzig Los Angeles Times, 7 AUGUST … [continue reading]

96. The philosophy of old age. Back in June, some dude named “Anthony Bourdain” died, apparently by suicide. I gathered from friends and the internet that he was a big deal—some sort of celebrity chef and Hunter S. Thompson-esque media personality and writer, with a twist of existentialism and a dash of progressive politics—but believe … [continue reading]

Starting in August 2018, Philosophy Ripped From The Headlines! is being delivered in weekly installments. Every installment contains (1) a recent article, (2) some follow-thoughts for further reflection or discussion, and (3) a link for supplementary reading. “Epistocracy: A Political Theorist’s Case For Letting Only the Informed Vote” By Sean Illing Vox, 23 JULY 2018 … [continue reading]

Starting in August 2018, Philosophy Ripped From The Headlines! is being delivered in weekly installments. Every installment contains (1) a recent article, (2) some follow-thoughts for further reflection or discussion, and (3) a link for supplementary reading. “The Quantified Heart” By Polina Aronson and Judith Duportail Aeon, 12 JULY 2018 URL =  https://aeon.co/essays/can-emotion-regulating-tech-translate-across-cultures In September … [continue reading]

We fall in love. We huddle together for comfort. We sway to the beat of our favorite songs. Over the course of a single day, we can feel joyful, anxious, sad, angry, and hopeful. These simple observations reveal the extent to which our mental lives are bound up with emotion and bodily feeling.  Indeed, lived … [continue reading]

“Diogenes Sheltering in His Barrel,” by John William Waterhouse 74. Processualism, organicism, and the two waves of the organicist revolution. Recently I read an essay by John Dupré and Daniel J. Nicholson, “A Manifesto for a Processual Philosophy of Biology,” in J. Dupré and D.J. Nicholson (eds.), Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology … [continue reading]