From the Vault: Philosophy, Politics and Academia
While Justice Everywhere takes a short break over the summer, we recall some of the highlights from our 2025-26 season.
At Justice Everywhere, we are always keen to feature posts reflecting on academia, pegagogy and the odd job of being a philosopher – and all that entails. What role should philosophers have in society? How can we adapt our teaching to the changing demands of students and the “world of work”? Here are a few highlights from this year’s posts relating to philosophy, politics and academia:
- It has been almost three years since ChatGPT was released in the public arena amid great hopes, worries, and, perhaps more than anything, hype. In one of the first posts of the year, Alexandru Volacu asks, can our current academic model go on in the age of AI?
- In this brilliantly engaging post – part of our ongoing collaboration with the Journal of Applied Philosophy – Kian Mintz-Woo explores the different roles that philosophers might play in supporting the development of public policies.
- As part of our Beyond the Ivory Tower series, Sanat Sogani talked to Stuart White about anarchism, republicanism and how punk rock can lead people down the perilous path of political theory.
- How should we allocate funding for research in a way that is fair and effective? Drawing on his paper in the Journal of Applied Philosophy, Louis Larue argues in favour of using (modified) lotteries to distribute funding.
- While we’re scrambling to adapt our assessments to the Age of GenAI, Anca Gheaus suggests that we also need to worry about the impact GenAI has on students’ ability to read complex text. How can we adapt our teaching to “AI reading”? Should we?
- It is part of the life of an academic to be confronted with failure: a job application going nowhere, a promising paper ruthlessly stomped by Reviewer 2. In this post, which draws on a paper published by the Journal of Applied Philosophy, Mario I. Juarez-Garcia investigates the unexplored value of giving up.
Stay tuned for even more on this topic in our 2026-27 season!
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Justice Everywhere will return in full swing soon with fresh weekly posts by our cooperative of regular authors, in addition to our Journal of Applied Philosophy series and other special series. If you would like to contribute a guest post on a topical justice-based issue (broadly construed), please feel free to get in touch with us at justice.everywhere.blog@gmail.com.
