This interview was conducted over two sittings, on October 21, 2009 and January 8, 2010 respectively. What appears below is a reproduction of the interview through notes on the first session, and a recording of the second. I would like…

This paper explores Luce Irigaray’s evaluation of Aristotle’s conception of place, and how it might connect to issues of ethnicity and race. The philosophy of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas suggest that emphasis and focus on differences might in some ways…

This paper examines recovery from a narrative perspective. Narrativity theory is the view that life takes the form of a story. Human experience happens within an ongoing storyline. My aim here is not to indulge in disclosure or claim that…

In this paper I examine how many of Kierkegaard’s major claims made about love, when taken together, lead to incongruencies and in some cases, complete paradoxes. I rely primarily on eight statements that are presented above and are often repeated…

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This essay explores the thought of Heidegger and Sartre concerning whether
existentialism is conducive to a certain ethics conceived of as a theory of moral conduct. In the Letter on Humanism, Heidegger stresses the importance of a return to the…

Charles Taylor identifies a close connection between morality and politics, noting that
much confusion arises from poorly understood, and sometimes clearly mistaken, moral ontologies. Together with fellow communitarians and civic-republicans, Taylor argues that the rights-based judicial review of legislation rests…

Excerpt: In the lecture What Pragmatism Means, William James gives us what became one of the most famous examples of strengths of the pragmatic method. Instead of beginning with an argument, he provides a story. In this story, James and…

It has been widely assumed that all languages share some structural features; language universals. Evans and Levinson (2009) challenge this assumption and provide a wealth of empirical evidence supporting their claim that linguistic diversity is the most remarkable characteristic of…

Pregnancy and motherhood bring enormous change to one’s life. As a student of philosophy, I have struggled to find a place for myself, as a new mother, in academic life. Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness examines human consciousness -- it…