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The Issues in Philosophy Series is running a two-part mini-series entitled “The Stubbon Psychologization of Pain.” This mini-series is authored by Tiina Rosenqvist, who has previously written for the blog. This post is the first installment. I have had persistent widespread pain for more than fifteen years. The pain has no known cause; it is, […]

In just a few years, the vocabulary we use to describe contemporary politics has become crowded with competing labels. Politicians like Trump, Bolsonaro, Orbán, Le Pen, or Milei; entrepreneurs with enormous political clout like Musk or Thiel; ideologues straddling both worlds like Bannon: in each of these cases, we find not one label but several […]

Editable character cards for this game are available for download at the end of this post. The genius of John Rawls’s Original Position thought experiment is that it retains the self-interestedness of competitive politics, but forces us to imagine ourselves in the shoes of anyone and everyone. Whatever the issue, the goal is to ensure […]

J. Angelo Corlett (PhD, 1992, University of Arizona) is Professor of Philosophy & Ethics at San Diego State University. He specializes in Philosophy of Law; Rights; Punishment; Race, Racism, and Reparations; Social Epistemology; Moral Responsibility Theory; the Right to Freedom of Expression; Plato’s Socrates and Plato; Philosophy of Sport; and Academic Ethics. He is the ...

In its 2022 decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the United States Supreme Court overturned nearly 50 years of legal precedent protecting the constitutional right to obtain an abortion (597 U.S. 215). The Court overruled the central holding of Roe v. Wade (1973), that the Fourteenth Amendment’s concept of personal liberty included the qualified […]