Debates

People of my generation, born in the late USSR, probably remember that the main political topic discussed with children back then was peace. When I think about it, I recall …
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What is Palestinian liberation? What kind of transformation does it entail? And what form of reason does it require? A fruitful exercise for thinking through these questions is to introduce …
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This paper is not a commentary on Nietzsche’s philosophy, nor an abstract reflection on his thought. In contrast to therapies that seek to restore the client to a previous state …
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In his studies on patients with aphasia, Lev Vygotsky observed that, despite their differences, they all shared a common difficulty: a deficit in abstraction. When asked to verbalize sentences like …
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In October 2022 we published in The Philosophical Salon a critique of Cedric Robinson’s landmark study, Black Marxism.[1] We took objection to Robinson’s claim that Marxism is a European ideology …
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The search for extraterrestrial intelligence simultaneously inscribes itself within the domains of science, art, and the paranormal. Yet, whether we are dealing with astrobiology, science fiction, or superstition, each of …
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As Slavoj Žižek often recalls, philosophy’s purpose is not to provide all the answers but to ask the right questions. If the question concerning warnings is one of them, it’s …
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“I know what you’re thinking, but it is NOT my mother!” This unprompted reflection by a patient led Freud to the perplexing insight not only that ‘mother’ occupied some unusually …
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 Professors, like other teachers, must accustom themselves to being misinterpreted. For example, in a philosophy of law class I once cited the famous adage, variously and often mistakenly attributed, that …
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Everyone’s busy debating whether Donald Trump’s global tariff plan is economic protectionism, geopolitical strategy, electoral propaganda, or the act of a madman who has lost the plot. It seems to …
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