“The potential benefits of collaboration between computer scientists and philosophers are numerous, and the need for interdisciplinary training is real” — Alexandros Koliousis and Brian Ball (New College of the Humanities) on training philosopher-engineers
“One danger of conceptual overreach is that we lose sight of the distinctive idea conveyed by a given concept through its immersion in a sea of many other quite separate ideas” — John Tasioulas (Oxford) on the importance of distinctions in political discourse
“Rather than taking for granted or even dismissing liberal democracy’s historic achievements, we need to preserve them” — Charles Mills (CUNY), interviewed in The Nation
“By performing this act of deconstruction through a literal act of construction, I am illuminating the contradictory double nature of the mere act of existing” — a few different items on this skewer by Simon Henriques
“The polarization dynamic leads to a condition where we come to regard political disagreement itself as a sign of democratic dysfunction” — Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt) explains
“It’s remarkable how many philosophers apparently spend their entire careers attempting elaborate proofs for the comforting things their parents drummed into them when they were children” — an interview with Walter Horn about democracy, epistemology, art, and more
Can images persuade better than words? — Nathan Ballantyne (Fordham) on the problems with understanding what others feel and think