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Central to modern biology and the study of life is the concept of the organism—roughly, a body with interconnected parts that make specific...
You can stock your life with important work, relationships, activities, and art, and yet, you can still ask: what's the point of it all? Alm...
How does coloniality shape the sociosomatic possibilities of our bodies? More importantly, how do gender-nonconforming people not only resis...
When it comes to consciousness, William James is well-known for his descriptions of it rather than his theory of it and its relation to the...
The cybernetic tradition in cognitive science analyzes the purposive behavior of many complex systems – from sensory-guided missiles to sens...
Andrew Lister's Justice and Reciprocity (Oxford University Press, 2024) examines the place of reciprocity in egalitarianism, focusing on Joh...
Humans are highly inquisitive, yet fallible and cognitively limited. How can we improve our epistemic lot despite our limitations? In Episte...
What happens if we turn to James Baldwin, not just for the amazing quotations and excellent photos, but as a critical theorist? What if we r...
While we tend to think of biological individuals in terms of paradigmic cases – a dog, a starfish, a bacterium – our ordinary criteria for d...
“Liberal egalitarianism” refers to a family of political views that are “liberal” in taking individual rights to be of premier importance an...
How do scientists reason when they posit unobservables to explain their observed results? For example, how did Watson and Crick reason that...
How can habits of racialization be affected by art, in its reception and its creation? How can a carnal aesthetics help us understand Latinx...
The word “metaphysics” conjures up thoughts of very hard questions about reality and deep, perhaps unresolvable, metaphysical mysteries. But...
How should one live? What should one do? And what do these questions have to do with being a good person? In Unbecoming Persons: The Rise an...
Until recently, no one could access the detailed contents of your mind directly the way only you can. This level of protection of our mental...
Humans live in richly normatively structured social environments: there are ways of doing things that are appropriate, and we are aware of w...
Why do so many philosophers value anarchy but refuse to call themselves anarchists? Why don’t philosophers draw on the classical anarchist t...
The human mind has the curious, even mysterious, ability to generate thoughts about things with which we are not in causal contact, such as...
What are dominant narratives of mixed race identity? What are those narratives doing, in everyday life and within philosophical discourse? H...
Psychiatry’s quest for credibility as a scientific discipline led it to adopt a disorder-label orientation in which mental conditions are ca...