Yancy & Kelley: on the Tulsa Massacre
When George Yancy, a philosopher, interviews historian Robin D. G. Kelley, what happened on the streets of Tulsa in 1921 is only a point …
The Philosophy Toolkit
Philosophers pride themselves on thinking clearly by seeing what follows from what, exposing sophisms, spotting fallacies, and generally policing our reasoning. Many have spent …
Dread, Time, and the Pandemic
Søren Kierkegaard’s reflections on worry are useful reading for those in lockdown. As John Lippitt explains, two of Kierkegaard’s books can help us think …
Good News for Nihilists
If embarking on a second year of shutdowns, social restrictions, constant health risks, and existential dread has eroded your sense of life’s ultimate meaning …
Making sense of contradictory science
The science you can come across today can often appear to be full of contradictory claims. One study tells you red wine is good …
My words have meaning, your parrot’s do not. Wittgenstein explains
These squiggles have a meaning. So do spoken words, road signs, mathematical equations and signal flags. Meaning is something with which we’re intimately familiar – …
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