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we admit to a few prejudices, which influence the choice of posts. we're both teachers and researchers, adjunct members of the profession, so often we post about professional philosophy matters (particularly in a western anglophone context), including calls for papers, journals, conference announcements, academic book reviews, professional news (for which one should also consult @TheDailyNous), and more broadly, academic items of interest, particular matters concerning the humanities broadly construed. We were also trained in the continental tradition, with an emphasis on social and political philosophy. And we believe that from the very beginning, philosophy was, always has been, and remains fundamentally connected to the political : that's why Socrates was executed.

But because philosophy matters not just in the academic sense or milieu, and because we recognize that we have a global audience with diverse interests, we also strive to appeal to the non-specialist interested in or impassioned by philosophy--or even students taking a class, and thus post articles that invite philosophical questioning, which we invite fans to do in the comments. (and saying that an article is stupid or lame is futile--we probably already know that anyway--but discussing why and on what philosophical grounds it is stupid or lame, well, that's more interesting).

Sometimes we venture into the overly specialized and technical, and sometimes we stray too far on the side of the popular and silly (every once in a while we even risk the political), but we try to hit the "sweet spot" between them. Not everyone will like every post, but sit tight, another one is coming in just three hours.

we have a continentalist orientation with a certain sympathy for phenomenology and the french, but we make an effort to be pluralist.

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