Some of our duties, and rights, in very unjust circumstances are different from those we'd have if we lived in just societies. But what if acting on them is buttressing the injustice? A few thoughts on this matter, about childrearing specifically.
Read about Owen Ware's gorgeous new translation of Novalis' novel "Heinrich von Ofterdingen," which includes fascinating critical materials to enrich your reading: acezekiel.com/2026/05/27/o...
"How can this be? How can a judge fail to express some resentment reacting to an article which is calling for the mass murder of Palestinians? After all, such murder is not only morally depraved; it is also a crime under Israeli and international law."
leiterreports.com/2026/03/18/i...
My blogpost speaks Croatian! (Thanks to a kind translator, Martina Valković):
kronika.ifzg.hr/2026/02/27/n...
If you're a graduate student or know any, look at this call. This is an annual conference at CEU, with a stream of panels in political philosophy. And this year's keynote is Andrew Williams! Deadline for abstracts: the 26th of February.
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Happy Children's Day! An short interview about children and childhood, and also about the Handbook on these topics which I co-edited what feels like a looong time ago (the interview itself is 7 years old and in Romanian): www.scena9.ro/article/anca...
I'm trying to wrap my head around how to use everybody's time in the classroom well, given that many students seem to be reading AI-generated summaries of assigned papers. A digest of what I learned so far, and an invitation to contribute ideas - or complaints:
justice-everywhere.org/general/wors...
In this Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics article I provide an account of feminism meant to capture its core normative insight and which, I hope, can be the basis of action-guiding future work. (Not OA; I'll send you a copy if you message me.)
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The major sin of AI writing: it injects the poison of boredom - of the mind-numbing kind - into life. That's unforgivable.
This piece explains why:
"The tone is bland; individual word choices are baffling; the structure lacks sense; key pieces of the argument are missing; facts are false."
Join the club of philosophers and anarchists, who wonder whether those who bring children into the world should have the legal right to also bring them up, and if yes, for what reason:
blog.apaonline.org/2026/02/10/t...
…for basically calling (with ample justification) a racist far right Israeli settler a student of the Nazis. The small claims court, remarkably, foudn in favor of the plaintiff. Professor Har…
Humanity at a Turning Point: Reaffirming or Reimagining Political Common Sense? CEU’s Annual Doctoral Conference (ADC) provides an interdisciplinary space to present works in progress, receive c...
In the classroom, boredom is the kiss of death; eyes would like to roll, hands to seek the phone – but they don’t, because my students are mostly polite and because I ban mobile phones in class. Ev…
Abstract. Feminism has always been a diverse intellectual tradition and activist movement, difficult to define as such. Today that difficulty is compounded
Look closely and you’ll see that every part of the text is not quite right.
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Few things are more mundane than becoming a parent. One, or one’s partner, gives birth to a child; one takes the baby home, if birthing happened in a hospital, or simply keeps the baby and raises her....
Today’s post is on Dr. Owen Ware’s exceptional new translation of Novalis’s novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen, a key text in early Romanticism. In addition to a beautiful translation, the new edition …
Is it acceptable to bequeath wealth to your children? Anca Gheaus explores in “Parental Partiality in Unjust Circumstances: Inheritance as Insurance” at doi.org/10.1086/739645 #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil #moralphilosophy #legalphilosophy
There is broad egalitarian agreement that inheritance results in distributive injustice and indirectly delegitimizes the political process; we should abolish it. But until we do this and put in place ...
