bell hooks (1952-2021) and the Canon

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She notes that it was only this year that works by both hooks and Mills, who died in September, have been officially added to the introductory syllabus for political theory at Oxford. hooks had been over the course of her…

Linda López McAlister (1939-2021)

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Linda López McAlister, professor emerita of philosophy and women’s and gender studies at the University of South Florida (USF), died last month. She died of heart failure on November 9th. Professor McAlister was one of the founders of the Society…

APA Issues Several Prizes

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In Games: Agency As Art, Thi Nguyen offers a careful articulation and defense of the thesis that games are the art form of agency. The book offers a comprehensive account and analysis of how playing games involves a project of developing ourselves…

New Philosophy Magazine Releases Inaugural Issue

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The first issue contains pieces by C. Thi Ngyuen, Nishi Shah, Alexander George, Kyla Ebels-Duggan, Lisa Herzog, and Sally Haslanger. You can check it out here. The Raven, created earlier this year (details here), is “a magazine of original philosophy…

Dreams, Consciousness, and the Nature of the Universe

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Perhaps dreams are an arena that can enable supracognitive powers to perform calculations and perceptions of reality that may be incomprehensible in our wake state. In my case, my paradox was making an equivalence between incomprehensible equations presented by the…