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CONTENTS 5 Alexandra Grant: The Publisher and the Public “The private act of writing can become public and political through the authority of publishing.” WHAT IS PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY? 10 Jonathon Hawkins and Peter West: A Democratic Approach to Public Philosophy
 “There is a tension at the heart of the notion of public philosophy between the rigorous, challenging crossexamination of beliefs and opinions and the accessibility that any form of public engagement demands.” 17 Jana Bacevic: What Does it Mean to Think Together?
 “What does it mean to think with others even if, or particularly when, our living (social, political, climactic) conditions may not be conducive to thought?” 22 Ellie Robson: Mary Midgley on Water and Thought: Is Public Philosophy Like Plumbing? “What makes someone especially good at philosophy, argues Midgley, is a kind of perceptiveness, a ‘power to distinguish what really matters’.” 27 Mary Midgley: Rings and Books
 “Great men, simply by their ignorance of a topic, can lay a remarkably strong taboo on the mention of it even where it happens to be entirely relevant.” developed in the academy to meet the evolving needs of our social and political realities.” 43 Yarran Hominh: The Hope of Public Philosophy “To live in hopeless times is thus not only subjectively to feel hopeless. It is for that feeling in a real way to reflect the way things are.” THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY 32 Angie Hobbs: Philosophy in the Agora: Past, Present and Future
 “Perhaps most vital of all, public philosophy has a critical role to play in calling out the lies, deceptions, half-truths and fantasies which are so polluting social media, the media and politics all over the globe.” 39 Aaron Wendland: Circling Back to the University: Public Philosophy and Pedagogy in the 21st Century “The future of public philosophy will be driven by the efficacy of using ideas CONVERSATIONS ON PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY 49 What is Public Philosophy? a conversation with Peter Adamson, Evelyn Brister, and Lucia Ziglioli “ You learn to be epistemically humble and doing so helps tackle the epistemic injustice that exists within philosophy as a discipline.” 55 The Intrinsic Goodness of Public Philosophy: a conversation with David Edmonds 
 “Some of the best philosophers are those who are best at public philosophy, precisely because they’ve got the confidence to dispense with the footnotes.” 2
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60 On Developing Critical Awareness: a conversation with Jack Symes 
 “If academic philosophers aren’t making progress on the big questions, then what are public philosophers going to talk about?” GENERAL 66 Stephen Darwall: Reparations for American Chattel Slavery
 “Housing segregation has brought massive wealth racial inequality in its train, to the extent that it makes sense to say that in the U.S. today, wealth itself is segregated by race.” 74 Helen De Cruz: Sprezzatura and Wuwei: A Daoist Approach to European Courtly Grace “Sprezzatura induces a sense of wonder in the audience: we know how hard these skills are, yet the expert makes them look effortless, which increases our admiration.” 80 Hannah H. Kim: Life as a “Non-standard” Narrative
 “By questioning the default stor y form, we question the default views on what kinds of lives we’ve been trained to find satisf ying.” 85 Gwilym David Blunt: A Mirror for Tech-Bros? Effective Altruism, Longtermism, and the Problem of Arbitrary Power
 “The existential risks that concern longtermism appear to overwhelm any concerns about constraining p o w e r.” REVIEWS 92 Japanese Philosophy between Eurocentrism and World Philosophy: Leon Krings & Francesca Greco review The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy by Bret W. Davis (ed.) “We are living in a globalized landscape that has led to multi-, cross-, and inter-cultural environments with an ever-increasing and pluralized set of interacting sub-cultures, sublanguages, and sub-traditions.” 98 The House Always Wins. Or Does it?: Andy West reviews The Idea of Prison Abolition by Tommie Shelby “If the true function of prison is to uphold racism and we have a commitment to ending racism, then we should also have a commitment to ending prisons too. So goes the abolitionist’s logic.” 102 The Sacred Monster: Brad Rappaport reviews Kant and the Naturalistic Turn of 18th Century Philosophy by Catherine Wilson “Kant’s way of thinking about the difference between faith and reason differs from that of the medievals in that it makes a hybrid of the two.” 106 Bridging the Divide: Zoe Newton reflects on The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation by Gary Francione and Robert Garner “A union in the animal rights movement between welfarists, abolitionists, and all those in between, would appear more than just desirable: it is essential.” 3

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60 On Developing Critical Awareness: a conversation with Jack Symes 
 “If academic philosophers aren’t making progress on the big questions, then what are public philosophers going to talk about?”

GENERAL

66 Stephen Darwall: Reparations for American Chattel Slavery
 “Housing segregation has brought massive wealth racial inequality in its train, to the extent that it makes sense to say that in the U.S. today, wealth itself is segregated by race.”

74 Helen De Cruz: Sprezzatura and Wuwei: A Daoist Approach to European Courtly Grace “Sprezzatura induces a sense of wonder in the audience: we know how hard these skills are, yet the expert makes them look effortless, which increases our admiration.”

80 Hannah H. Kim: Life as a “Non-standard” Narrative
 “By questioning the default stor y form, we question the default views on what kinds of lives we’ve been trained to find satisf ying.”

85 Gwilym David Blunt: A Mirror for Tech-Bros? Effective Altruism, Longtermism, and the Problem of Arbitrary Power
 “The existential risks that concern longtermism appear to overwhelm any concerns about constraining p o w e r.”

REVIEWS

92 Japanese Philosophy between Eurocentrism and World Philosophy: Leon Krings & Francesca Greco review The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy by Bret W. Davis (ed.) “We are living in a globalized landscape that has led to multi-, cross-, and inter-cultural environments with an ever-increasing and pluralized set of interacting sub-cultures, sublanguages, and sub-traditions.”

98 The House Always Wins. Or Does it?: Andy West reviews The Idea of Prison Abolition by Tommie Shelby

“If the true function of prison is to uphold racism and we have a commitment to ending racism, then we should also have a commitment to ending prisons too. So goes the abolitionist’s logic.”

102 The Sacred Monster: Brad Rappaport reviews Kant and the Naturalistic Turn of 18th Century Philosophy by Catherine Wilson “Kant’s way of thinking about the difference between faith and reason differs from that of the medievals in that it makes a hybrid of the two.”

106 Bridging the Divide: Zoe Newton reflects on The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation by Gary Francione and Robert Garner “A union in the animal rights movement between welfarists, abolitionists, and all those in between, would appear more than just desirable: it is essential.”

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