Issue 7: June 2019 Philosophy as a Way of Life — Arden Cadallo-Dent This essay explores the philosophical methods known … More
Category: Issue 7
Is Being Worth It? Martin Heidegger’s Deeper Ontology
By Ryan Morgan-Kleinman Throughout Martin Heidegger’s long and tumultuous career, the quest to reveal the true nature of ‘Being’ lay … More
Lyotard: A Rephrasing of Silence and the ‘Political’
By Tia Wolf “One of the aims of critical Philosophy is to dispute traditional modes of thinking and the historical … More
On The Modern University as an Ideological State Apparatus
By Drew Pavlou The modern university is cold, alienating and lifeless. The neoliberal university serialises students, stripping them of their … More
Poetic Reflections
By Anonymous Mind’s Eye Racing Through a Grove of Words Mind’s eye racing through a grove of words, and bushels formed … More
Examining the Compatibility of Dewey’s Pragmatism and Hegel’s Idealism
By Louis Altena An emergent area of inquiry has situated itself around the compatibility of idealist thought with pragmatism. Although … More
Dewey and Buber: An I-Thou Relation
By Samuel Brabham The American pragmatist, John Dewey, and German Existentialist, Martin Buber, were writing during the same period, yet … More
Philosophy as a Way of Life
By Arden Cadallo-Dent In philosophy, there exist two different yet connected philosophical methods. The first is the Delphic ‘know thyself’ … More
Subjects with Desire: The MLF, and Luce Irigaray’s ‘Woman as Commodity’
By Codie Pia Condos Despite frequent attempts to dismiss sexuality as a topic for private consideration, its significance for human … More
The Inequities of Knowledge in Liberal Democracy
By Brooke Jordan The modern liberal democracy has failed democracy itself. This failure is not the result of misuse or … More
Ideology and Scientific Practice: Althusser’s Search for the Real Conditions of Existence
By Tristan Ideology operates, so that everything remains the same. It is the family which loves; the school which conditions; … More
Down the Rabbit Hole: Miracles, Induction, and Scientific Realism
By Owen Morawitz There’s a scene in the dystopian science fiction film The Matrix (1999), where the character Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) … More
Modern Technology and Bio-Power: Foucault and Heidegger
By Bradley Van Cooten Two prominent and vastly influential critics of the modern era, Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault, shared … More
Luce Irigaray: The Queer Implications of Sexual Difference
By Jordan Ross Luce Irigaray’s theory of sexual difference as posited in I Love to You attempts to identify the … More
Are Moral Statements Truth-Apt: What We Actually Mean When We Say ‘Good’
By Sam Adams In this essay, I start by making a moral claim and then examine how that claim would be … More