Dr. Matthew R. McLennan

Issues surrounding precarity, debility, and vulnerability are now of central concern to philosophers as we try to navigate an increasingly uncertain world. Matthew R. McLennan delves into these subjects enthusiastically and sensitively, presenting a vision of the discipline of philosophy which is grounded in real, lived experience. Developing an invigorating, if at times painful, sense of the finitude and fragility...

Is philosophy a playful pursuit? This book’s central argument is that playfulness is an essential quality of philosophical practice, and that there is something essentially philosophical about play. Ways of doing philosophy well invariably require the same wonder, hope, co-operation and positive freedom that define healthy modes of play. Matthew McLennan explores this intrinsic connection in the way that philosophy...