Emerson Robert Bodde

Journal article Synthese · June 1, 2026 Contributing to the burgeoning philosophical aesthetics of video games, especially the ontology of video games, this paper argues that the medium is capable of a unique form of class-based discrimination. Building on C. Thi Nguyen’s framework of agential a ... Full text Cite

Vice and inadequacy: Spinoza's naturalism and the mental life of generative artificial intelligence

Journal article AI and Society · March 1, 2026 Motivated by increasingly superstitious usage and socially corrosive scandals surrounding the generative artificial intelligence models (e.g., GPT-4) of today, this paper draws on the work of canonical philosophical diagnostician of superstition, Baruch Sp ... Full text Cite

The Ontic Injustice of Social Class: Towards an Anthropological Critique

Journal article Journal of Ethics · March 1, 2026 In this paper, I argue that Katharine Jenkins’s concept of ontic injustice can be extended to apply to the case of social class, thereby helping to address the abiding class-ignorance of the social ontology field that Åsa Burman has recently diagnosed. Ont ... Full text Cite

The Art of Video Games and Class-Based Discrimination

Journal article Southwest Philosophy Review · 2026 Contributing to the burgeoning philosophical aesthetics of video games, this paper argues that the medium is capable of a unique form of class-based discrimination. Following C. Thi Nguyen’s framework of agential aesthetics, a central element of vi ... Full text Cite

The Facilitator Problem: Politicizing Epistemic-Democratic Assumptions in the People's Republic of China

Journal article Philosophy and Public Affairs · October 1, 2025 Within discussions of deliberative democracy, the role of facilitator is ever-present: they gather participants, introduce expert information, correct for discursive prejudices, and more. Few recognize, however, that facilitators therefore exercise substan ... Full text Cite

The Revolutionary’s Dilemma: The Epistemology of Political Polarization and Solidarity Beyond Democracy

Journal article Critical Review · January 1, 2025 Robert Talisse theorizes a “Democrat’s Dilemma,” which argues that liberal democratic citizenship involves a normative and phenomenological conflict between the norms of democratic equality and pursuing justice. If citizens succumb to the dilemma and disen ... Full text Cite

Ethically Aligned Design in Autonomous and Intelligent Systems: An Overview

Conference Ethics 2025 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering Science and Technology Emerging Technologies Ethics and Social Justice · January 1, 2025 Much recent work in the value theory of autonomous and intelligent systems (AIS) revolves around three issues. First is the alignment problem: the problem of producing AIS whose values align with humanity’s interests. Second, superintelligence: the potenti ... Full text Cite

A Decolonial Spinoza: An Interpretation in Tension

Journal article Journal of Spinoza Studies · December 18, 2024 Following Santiago Slabodsky’s articulation of a tradition of decolonial Judaism and his suggestion that Spinoza might be considered a part of it, I argue that Spinoza may be considered a decolonial thinker. While outlining the historical context i ... Full text Cite

Exhaustion, Scars, and Inheritance: An Embodied Approach to Social Class

Book section · January 1, 2024 In this essay, Emerson Bodde argues that class ought to be viewed as a “real social identity” in the sense developed by Linda Alcoff to describe race and gender as bodily, hermeneutic, and historically shaped social categories. Taking inspiration especiall ... Full text Cite

Apocalyptic claims and the everyday: Tosaka Jun, history, and journalism

Journal article Asian Philosophy · January 1, 2022 In this paper, drawing upon Tosaka Jun’s response to Interwar debates on historicism and his account of everydayness, I offer an explanation for why contemporary secular apocalyptic claims lack convergence by focusing on the historical dimension of such cl ... Full text Cite

The Lebensform as organism: Clarifying the limits of immanent critique

Journal article Philosophy and Social Criticism · November 1, 2021 In this article, I argue for the necessary organicism of immanent critique and the resulting limits and applicability of immanent critique as elaborated in Rahel Jaeggi’s account of Lebensformen. Through a historical review of the problem of natural purpos ... Full text Cite

The fascist and the democrat: Crisis of the political in dewey and schmitt

Journal article Transactions of the Charles S Peirce Society · June 1, 2019 The Interwar period, inflected with crisis, produced “radical” philosophies of many kinds. In this article, I attempt to demonstrate not just a conceptual compatibility, but complementarity, between the political philosophies of John Dewey and Carl Schmitt ... Full text Cite

Benjamin and spinoza: Divine violence and potentia

Journal article Eidos A Journal for Philosophy of Culture · January 1, 2019 In this paper, I seek to clarify, criticize, and expand upon the ambiguous-yet-influential concept of divine violence introduced by Walter Benjamin’s “Zur Kritik der Gewalt”. I proceed in three parts: in the first, I outline Benjamin’s argument about the c ... Full text Cite