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Category Archives: Philosophy
Avishai Margalit: The Philosopher of Humiliation
Avishai Margalit (b. 1939) is an Israeli philosopher and public intellectual whose work reshaped how moral and political philosophy treats dignity, humiliation, memory, compromise, and betrayal. He spent the core of his career at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and … Continue reading
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Philosophy After the Seminar Room: Michael Millerman and the Post-Academic Intellectual
Michael Millerman (b. 1984) occupies a hybrid position in contemporary intellectual life. Trained in political philosophy yet operating outside the research university, he combines scholarship, teaching, translation, and digital entrepreneurship into a single career. His project traces philosophical questions about … Continue reading
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Overrated Philosophers
This crowd enjoys a cultural standing beyond their merit because they fill coalition needs. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is the patron of Jewish liberal humanities intellectuals. Origins of Totalitarianism is powerful as literary-historical writing but soft as causal analysis. Many historians … Continue reading
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Why Philosophy Polices Harder Than Law
Philosophy enforces tighter coalitional discipline than legal academia because the structural conditions on a philosopher are tighter than those on a law professor. Start with size. A top philosophy department has fifteen to twenty-five faculty. A top law school has … Continue reading
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Elizabeth S. Anderson and the Recovery of Relational Equality
Elizabeth S. Anderson (b. 1959) holds the John Dewey Distinguished University Professorship of Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Michigan, with a courtesy appointment as Professor of Law. She has taught there since 1987, the year … Continue reading
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Brian Leiter: The Naturalist’s Program
Brian Leiter was born in 1963 in Manhattan, into a Jewish family. He went to Princeton and graduated with a philosophy degree in 1984. He then went to Michigan, where he took a law degree in 1987 and finished a … Continue reading
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The Dime in the Phone Booth: John M. Doris and the Science of Moral Failure
John M. Doris is born in 1963 and raised in Ithaca, New York, a Cornell faculty brat. His father, John L. Doris (1923-2008), is a developmental psychologist in Cornell’s School of Human Ecology, an applied scholar who works on the … Continue reading
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Daily Nous and the Convenient Center
Justin Weinberg is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, where he has been tenured long enough to describe the security it gives him as a precondition for running Daily Nous without fear of professional consequence. … Continue reading
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The Unwritten Rules: What Academic Philosophy Permits and Forbids
Academic philosophy in 2026 has a published set of rules and an unpublished one. The published rules say that any argument, pursued with rigor and honesty, belongs in the philosophical conversation. The unpublished rules say something quite different. The two … Continue reading
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Omar Sultan Haque – Physician, Psychiatrist, Philosopher
Omar Sultan Haque holds an Sc.B. in neuroscience and A.B. in religious studies from Brown University, an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, an S.T.M. from Yale, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He completed his Ph.D. in cognition and … Continue reading
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