In What’s Left of Philosophy Gil Morejón (@gdmorejon), Lillian Cicerchia (@lilcicerch), Owen Glyn-Williams (@oglynwil), and William Paris (@williammparis) discuss philosophy’s radical histories... more
In this episode we talk about the weird little unfinished utopian novel The New Atlantis, written by founding enlightenment figure... more
In this episode, we discuss the educational philosophy of the American pragmatist John Dewey. Focusing on his 1938 treatise Experience... more
In this episode, we discuss the contributions of political theorist Norman Geras to socialist debates about revolutionary ethics, movement democracy,... more
In this episode, we talk about the late, great Charles Mills and his landmark book The Racial Contract. Forcefully arguing... more
In this episode, we discuss Robert Nozick’s libertarian political philosophy as presented in his 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia.... more
In this episode, we tackle the concept of violence as it appears in the revolutionary and anticolonial work of Frantz... more
In this episode, we are joined by Jeff Diamanti to discuss what it looks like to watch the climate change.... more
In this episode, we discuss essays from throughout G.A. Cohen’s philosophical career. Cohen is known as one of the founders... more
In this episode, we are joined by Alberto Toscano to talk about his analysis of contemporary far-right movement and ideology.... more
In this episode, we are joined by Ajay Chaudhary to discuss his book The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in... more
In this episode, we are joined by Matt McManus to discuss his research into the history and philosophy of right-wing... more
In this episode we delve into Judith Butler’s Giving an Account of Oneself, an illuminating book from 2005 that examines... more
In this episode, we talk with Manon Garcia about the problem of women’s submissiveness in feminist philosophy. Then we... more
In this episode, we return to the work of Ernst Bloch and his theory concerning “aesthetic genius” and the possibility... more
In this episode, we dig into the Doctrine of Right in Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals to see what he has... more
In this episode, we talk about David Harvey’s analysis of the urbanization process as a form of accumulated surplus capital... more
In this nonstandard episode, Gil and Owen are joined by Michael Peterson to talk about how dreadful utilitarianism is, consider... more
In this episode, we are joined by George Washington University Associate Professor Vanessa Wills to discuss her article “What Could... more
In this episode we get the Perry Anderson treatment and ask if we philosophers are the problem with how Western... more
In this inaugural episode of our new series on ecosocialism, we discuss some writings by ecological Marxist thinker John Bellamy... more
In this episode we get the Perry Anderson treatment and ask if we philosophers are the problem with how Western Marxism has... more