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CONTENTS THE NEW BASICS: SOCIETY 7 Belief
 Rima Basu “Racist beliefs are a paradigm of bad beliefs, yet a racist world will present individuals with significant evidence to support their racist beliefs.” 11 Border
 Robin Celikates “A border is never just a border, a gate to be opened or closed at will – although such gates do of course exist and can remain closed with fatal consequences” 16 Feeling
 William Davies “Feeling is a challenge to the dominant forms of representation and knowledge that modern societies have privileged for hundreds of years.” 21 Intersectionality Reiland Rabaka “What were the roots of intersectionality prior to its global popularization by Kimberlé Crenshaw in the late 1980s?” 26 Knowledge
 Lani Watson “Exclusive focus on the task of defining knowledge has come at the expense of examining the role that knowledge plays in our lives.” 30 The Market
 Jessica Whyte “What is a market if markets can over-ride the democratic political process and determine the priorities to which nations must conform?” 35 Objectivity
 Briana Toole “The world does not ‘give’ raw, unfiltered data that we can mechanically assess divested of our individual biases and values.” 41 Reality
 Jana Bacevic “Our ontological commitments are not only theoretical but also political: what we believe to be true has implications for how reality will be.” 46 Responsibility
 Maeve McKeown “The highly-interdependent, globalised economy means that cumulative human activities can impact on millions of geographically dispersed people in deeply harmful ways.” 51 Time Michelle Bastian “How societies should tell the time, including how they set their clocks, has not generally been seen as a philosophical problem.” 55 Unfreedom
 Yarran Hominh “In focusing on the lofty ideal of freedom, we turn our eyes to the heavens above, and, like Thales, we may lose sight of what is in front of us: forms of unfreedom.” 61 Violence
 Eraldo Souza dos Santos “Violence appears to imply the failure of politics because in violent conflicts the use of physical force replaces the symbolic force of the strongest argument.” CHARLES W. MILLS 67 Editorial: Reflections on the Life and Work of Charles W. Mills
 Darren Chetty and Adam Ferner 68 Charles W. Mills, In Memoriam
 Zara Bain “Liberalism is neither colourblind nor ‘post-racial’, no matter how emphatically it might assert otherwise.” 73 A Particularly Wonderful Human Being: A Conversation about Charles W. Mills
 an interview with Linda Martín Alcoff “We need to begin philosophy where we actually are and that’s going to give us a very different conceptual armature.” 2
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79 On Seeing and Naming the Whiteness of Philosophy
 George Yancy “The fear that Black thought sees through the evasive manoeuvres of whiteness is evident in the recent responses to critical race theory.” 87 History of an Interview
 Laurencia Sáenz Benavides and Adam Ferner “White ignorance is a matter of active suppression, often through clandestine mechanisms of disavowal and dissimulation.” 90 Ignorance, Innocent and Otherwise
 an interview with Charles W. Mills “The representation of Nazism as an unprecedented outlier in the evolution of Western civilization is fundamentally misleading.” GENERAL 95 What is the Point of Wild Animals?
 Christopher Belshaw “It surely appears that these animals, and billions more, out in the wild, live such wretched lives that it would be better for them never to have existed.” 100 Transformation and Immortality: Introducing Dante’s Divina Commedia
 Sophie Grace Chappell “Dante’s Paradise is – unchangingly – a place of infinite change; of change in who I am, among other things.” 106 Dante’s Inferno: Canto I: The Wood of Wilderness
 translated by Sophie Grace Chappell 111 From Redemption to Proper Dignity: Being Human in a Technological Age
 Sean D. Kelly “Just as it is impossible to complete the task of philosophical understanding, there is no satisfying way to start it either.” REVIEWS 121 Taking Simulation Seriously Tim Crane reviews Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy by David J. Chalmers
 “While AI machines have succeeded in exhibiting specific intelligence in clearly defined tasks, no one currently has any idea about how to create the kind of intelligence we have.” 126 Psychedelics and the Limits of Naturalism Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes reviews Philosophy of Psychedelics by Chris Letheby “One of the important contributions that psychedelics bring is to offer a person novel conceptualizations of reality.” REGULARS 133 Liquid Philosophy Artificial Fiction
 Chiara T. Ricciardone “Artificial writing is emerging as one element of a variety of humanAI conjunctions, and its ambiguous potential is framed by them.” 142 Philosophy in the Real World
 An Experiment in Co-Authorship
 Adam Ferner and Moya Mapps “How different is the co-authored paper from the single-authored paper? On some level, all philosophy is collaborative. None of it exists in a vacuum.” 3

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79 On Seeing and Naming the Whiteness of Philosophy
 George Yancy “The fear that Black thought sees through the evasive manoeuvres of whiteness is evident in the recent responses to critical race theory.”

87 History of an Interview
 Laurencia Sáenz Benavides and Adam Ferner “White ignorance is a matter of active suppression, often through clandestine mechanisms of disavowal and dissimulation.”

90 Ignorance, Innocent and Otherwise
 an interview with Charles W. Mills “The representation of Nazism as an unprecedented outlier in the evolution of Western civilization is fundamentally misleading.”

GENERAL

95 What is the Point of Wild Animals?
 Christopher Belshaw “It surely appears that these animals, and billions more, out in the wild, live such wretched lives that it would be better for them never to have existed.”

100 Transformation and Immortality: Introducing Dante’s Divina Commedia
 Sophie Grace Chappell

“Dante’s Paradise is – unchangingly – a place of infinite change; of change in who I am, among other things.”

106 Dante’s Inferno: Canto I: The Wood of Wilderness
 translated by Sophie Grace Chappell

111 From Redemption to Proper Dignity: Being Human in a Technological Age
 Sean D. Kelly “Just as it is impossible to complete the task of philosophical understanding, there is no satisfying way to start it either.”

REVIEWS

121 Taking Simulation Seriously Tim Crane reviews Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy by David J. Chalmers
 “While AI machines have succeeded in exhibiting specific intelligence in clearly defined tasks, no one currently has any idea about how to create the kind of intelligence we have.”

126 Psychedelics and the Limits of Naturalism Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes reviews Philosophy of Psychedelics by Chris Letheby “One of the important contributions that psychedelics bring is to offer a person novel conceptualizations of reality.”

REGULARS

133 Liquid Philosophy Artificial Fiction
 Chiara T. Ricciardone “Artificial writing is emerging as one element of a variety of humanAI conjunctions, and its ambiguous potential is framed by them.”

142 Philosophy in the Real World
 An Experiment in Co-Authorship
 Adam Ferner and Moya Mapps “How different is the co-authored paper from the single-authored paper? On some level, all philosophy is collaborative. None of it exists in a vacuum.”

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