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    Play and Inquiry.Alain Beauclair - 2025 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 39 (2):136-157.
    ABSTRACT In this article, play is taken up as a mood that incites and mediates inquiry. As such, play is said to produce not only, following Gadamer, the “forms of our freedom,” but also the very being of human meaning, giving it both ethical and ontological import.
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    In Praise of Immaturity.Vincent M. Colapietro - 2025 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 39 (2):117-135.
    ABSTRACT Dewey draws a critical distinction between immaturity in a comparative sense and in an absolute or intrinsic sense. He identifies immaturity in the intrinsic sense with “a force positively present—the ability to develop.” Whereas immaturity in the comparative sense indicates a lack, the other meaning denotes “a positive force of ability,—the power to grow.” This implies that both the child’s plasticity and even dependence on others are “something positive.” “Since growth is the characteristic of life,” Dewey claims, “education is (...)
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    Hearing Voices in The Varieties of Religious Experience.Megan Craig - 2025 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 39 (2):190-203.
    ABSTRACT This article considers the role of testimony in William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience in order to highlight the unique style and structure of the text and its effect on readers. Understanding Varieties as a performative, multivocal, creative experiment in pedagogy and teaching puts the book in conversation with more contemporary theorists of liberatory education including Paulo Freire and bell hooks.
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    Friendship as Moral Education.John Lysaker - 2025 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 39 (2):158-174.
    ABSTRACT Friendship is often regarded as an enriching social relationship that improves our quality of life. It is far less common to explore it as a site of ongoing education, let alone moral education, even though intimations of such a view can be found in canonical treatments of friendship. This article defends the view the friendship is an ongoing learning process with significant moral import. In particular, it is argued that through friendship we learn to care for others in their (...)
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    Making Moral Mistakes: Buddhist Perspectives on Moral Ignorance and Moral Education.Emily McRae - 2025 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 39 (2):175-189.
    ABSTRACT There are many kinds of moral mistakes, including wrong actions (such as stealing, killing, lying, and so on), but also maintaining false beliefs about morality, moral misperceptions and misattention, and morally problematic ways of feeling and thinking. According to Buddhist moral psychology, such mistakes are understood as due to misunderstanding (avidyā), either directly or indirectly. This article will present and defend the fourth-century Indian Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu’s account of misunderstanding as the active opposition to moral knowledge that creates and (...)
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    Democratic Education between Empowered Skepticism and Partisan Dogmatism.Scott R. Stroud - 2025 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 39 (2):204-219.
    ABSTRACT What sort of education does democracy require? How can we balance the ideals of openness to others and assertion of our own ideas to disagreeing others that democracy demands? This article explores the tempting solutions to the paradoxical charges of democracy—skepticism and partisan dogmatism—and finds them lacking. Using insights from William James and John Dewey, this study argues that there are two habits or senses of charity needed in pluralistic democracies. These habits of imagination open us to the complexities (...)
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    Public Education Without a Public?John J. Stuhr - 2025 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 39 (2):220-244.
    ABSTRACT This article addresses six questions: What is education?; What is the difference between education and schooling?; What is democratic education?; What is public education?; What are public goods?; and, What changes are needed to render schooling more democratic and a more effective public good? In answering these questions, this article sets forth a pragmatic view of education, an account of public schooling based on its aims and outcomes rather than funding sources, and a list of institutional changes needed to (...)
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    To Stand Being.Lucas Rossi Corcoran - 2025 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 39 (1):87-111.
    ABSTRACT Little has been said about Martin Heidegger’s influence on Latin American philosophy. This article addresses this oversight by investigating how twentieth-century Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch uses ser and estar and the formula estar-siendo to dethrone Heidegger’s famed Dasein. Drawing on estar’s etymological roots in the semantic element, Kusch recovers a phenomenological tradition rooted in the Greek histemi instead of the on of “ontology.” To champion Kusch’s phenomenology, this article borrows from analytic philosophy. Beginning in the words’ semantics, this article (...)
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    The Openness of the Future: A Phenomenological Account.Yazan Freij - 2025 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 39 (1):25-40.
    ABSTRACT This article develops a phenomenological account to characterize the openness of the future. More specifically, showing that phenomenological experience is necessary to derive the belief that the future is open by adopting a realist reading of phenomenology where our experience can be used to speculate beyond the thought-world correlation postulated by Quentin Meillassoux and show that this openness is best captured as an indeterminacy of the future itself. This indeterminacy of the future is the indeterminacy of which events are (...)
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    Rortian Solidarity in José Revueltas’s Carceral Novels.Sergio Armando Gallegos-Ordorica - 2025 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 39 (1):41-57.
    ABSTRACT This article examines the two carceral novels (The Walls of Water and The Hole) of the Mexican philosopher, writer and labor activist José Revueltas using as a lens Richard Rorty’s views on solidarity—particularly, Rorty’s views on what solidarity consists in, how it is developed and the effects it has, and this article argues that, if Rorty’s views on solidarity are correct, Revueltas’s carceral novels have a remarkable ability to expand our solidarity in virtue of their raw portrayal of the (...)
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    Gender Indoctrination.Mary Magada-Ward - 2025 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 39 (1):58-69.
    ABSTRACT This article explores the phenomenon of stay-at-home daughterhood to demonstrate how this practice provides a stark contrast to the requirements and rewards of genuine education. It does so, the article argues, both through its dependence upon isolation and indoctrination and its allegiance to conceptions of femininity and masculinity that reveal themselves to be uninhabitable, the latter by trying to cultivate an impossible aspiration to omnipotence and the former by violating what Peirce identifies as “the sole rule of reason,” which (...)
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    The Postmodern Autobiography: A Critique of Seeking Recognition from the Self.Ursula Roessiger - 2025 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 39 (1):70-86.
    ABSTRACT Jean-Jacques Rousseau is widely credited as the originator of the modern autobiography. To the contemporary reader, his work in the Confessions is a familiar exer-cise in self-discovery and self-evaluation. Rousseau’s project is a courageous one: to lay bare the inner and often secret history of the self and share this revelation with the world. It is this project that was to change the way the individual communed with themselves and additionally changed the way the individual presented themselves to others. (...)
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    Atmosphere in Pragmatism.Richard Shusterman - 2025 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 39 (1):1-24.
    ABSTRACT The concept of atmosphere is now central within phenomenology, critical theory, and hermeneutics, but it has not yet played a similarly significant role in contemporary pragmatism. Part of the problem is that the term “atmosphere” is not especially salient in classical pragmatism, though the ideas encompassed by that term do play an important role there. This article explores some important ways that classical pragmatist philosophy deploys the ambiguous, polyvalent, and lexically multiple notion of atmosphere. Along with its primary scientific (...)
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