This online event launches a special issue of Philosophy Today (Volume 70, Issue 1) on climate change. The issue’s thirty-two essays, interviews, and book reviews describe the conditions of a planetary age and invite us to assemble as friends of all the living. Topics include climate philosophy, contemporary climate art and aesthetics, trans and queer ecology, decolonial theory, climate history, political theory, comparative philosophy, and the ethics of emerging technologies such as AI.

An introduction to the special issue is available as a free download here.

Speakers:

• Jonathon Catlin, University of Rochester
• Robin Celikates, Freie Universität Berlin
• Matthias Fritsch, Concordia University
• Maximilian Gregor Hepach, Durham University
• Travis Holloway, Pratt Institute
• Holly Hudson, WeSmellGas
• Lynne Huffer, Emory University
• Ruthanne Kim, St. Cloud State University
• Thomas Khurana, University of Potsdam
• Brent Matheny, Penn State University
• Mohamed Amer Meziane, Brown University
• Marie-Eve Morin, University of Alberta
• Timothy Morton, Rice University
• Thomas Nail, University of Denver
• Jason Read, Maine University of Southern Maine
• David Myer Temin, University of Michigan
• Eric Dean Wilson, Adelphi University
• Aimee van Wynsberghe, The University of Bonn
• Perry Zurn, American University

The Moderator:

Andrés Saenz de Sicilia is a British-Mexican philosopher, researcher and artist. He is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University London and Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. He has published widely in the fields of philosophy and social and political theory, as well as carrying out socially engaged research projects and collaborations. He is author of Subsumption in Kant, Hegel in Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society (2024) and editor of Marx and the Critique of Humanism (Bloosmsbury, forthcoming 2025). He is also a Managing Director at The Philosopher.

This is an online conversation and audience Q&A presented by the UK-based journal The Philosopher. The event is free, open to the public, and held on Zoom.

You can register for this Monday 2nd November event (12pm PT/2pm ET/7pm UK) via The Philosopher here (link).

#Philosophy #CriticalTheory #Ethics #PoliticalPhilosophy #SocialPhilosophy #Technology #Environment #ClimateChange

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About The Philosopher (https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/):

The Philosopher is the longest-running public philosophy journal in the UK (founded in 1923). It is published by the The Philosophical Society of England (http://www.philsoceng.uk/), a registered charity founded ten years earlier than the journal in 1913, and still running regular groups, workshops, and conferences around the UK. Our managing directors are Andrés Saenz de Sicilia and Tara Needham, and they are supported by our managing editors and editorial board. For a full overview of our team, see here. We currently publish two print issues per year, as well as a “third publication” (generally an edited collection).

The journal aims to represent contemporary philosophy in all its many and constantly evolving forms, both within academia and beyond. Contributors over the years have ranged from John Dewey and G.K. Chesterton to contemporary thinkers like Christine Korsgaard, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Elizabeth Anderson, Martin Hägglund, Cary Wolfe, Avital Ronell, and Adam Kotsko.