Armchair Opinions

I did my BA in Philosophy & Creative Writing at London Metropolitan University, then completed MAs in Continental Philosophy at Warwick University and Social & Political Thought at Sussex University. I started (but didn’t complete) a DPhil at Sussex University, and have taught at Sussex, King’s College London and Birkbeck. I am particularly interested in political philosophy (both analytic and continental) and have studied modern philosophy (especially Descartes and Hume), Existentialism, Phenomenology, Critical Theory, and post-structuralist thought. I am most interested in the ancient Greek practice of parrhesia (the art of speaking frankly), as I think it is something we need very much right now.

What behaviour is characteristic of a philosophically minded individual?

By / / Metaphilosophy / ,

Thank you Jong Camallere for such a candid question. I am going to start by saying something that many philosophers will consider ridiculous: philosophers do not seek truth, but clarity. The philosophically minded individual must not seek truth, and must even be willing to accept that truth may be unattainable. There are several behaviours that […]

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Is Jordan Peterson a ‘stupid person’s smart person’?

By / / Epistemology, Value Theory / ,

Thanks to Mojahid Gauraki for the question. This is an interesting question, because while on the surface it seems to be about a single individual and whether they are ‘smart’, it is in fact about what it means for someone to be smart or stupid, and the different ways either might be recognised, or even

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