“Learning to philosophize is finding one’s voice in a conversation that is already ongoing. In order to get started, one has first to find one’s bearings, immersing oneself in the work of philosophical thinkers, including historical figures, and also in the work of contributors to the other humanities, the social sciences, and the arts. This means that, to some extent, at the very beginning, one cannot help but rely on the authority of those—texts or, more likely, individuals—who play the role in one’s life as teachers. …
I would certainly say that, as philosophers, we cannot help being heirs to particular intellectual traditions, and I would add that we don’t properly receive this bequest unless, in accepting it, we undertake a standing responsibility to critically survey it. Part of what it is to come into one’s own philosophically is to insist on one’s readiness to assume this critical stance.”
– Excerpt from interview in Oxford Public Philosophy, 2020.
Selected existing courses
- Animal Crisis, Fall 2022
- The Death of Nature: Critical Environmental Thought in the Age of the Anthropocene — with Jay Bernstein (NSSR), Fall 2022
Upcoming courses
The Death of Nature, Fall 2023
Philosophy and Ecology, Fall 2023
The Turn Toward Virtue: Anscombe, Foot and Murdoch, Spring 2024
Get in Touch
crarya@newschool.edu
alice.crary@regents.ox.ac.uk
Alice Crary 