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Synthese
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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 ...
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AI and Society
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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 ...
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Journal of Ethics
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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 ...
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Southwest Philosophy Review
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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 ...
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Philosophy and Public Affairs
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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 ...
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Critical Review
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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 ...
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Journal of Spinoza Studies
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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 ...
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Asian Philosophy
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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 ...
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Philosophy and Social Criticism
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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 ...
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Transactions of the Charles S Peirce Society
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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 ...
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Eidos A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
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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 ...
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