When Is Something “Politicized”?

In philosophy but also in society more broadly, when is something “inherently political”?

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Last week Agnes Callard, a University of Chicago philosophy professor with a column at The Point magazine and the author of the book Aspiration, wrote an editorial in The New York Times arguing that philosophers should not sign petitions.

Thanks to Nicholas Clairmont

Oliver Traldi

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I’m a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. I study metaphysics, epistemology, science, language, and logic.

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