Philosophical Dictionary

In which we discuss the philosophical concept of the social construct. What is a social construct and what makes something a social construct?

In which we discuss Karl Marx's theories of alienation of labor and wage slavery in our contemporary context.

A social construct exists because people keep treating it as real: money, borders, marriage, a company. Constructed is not the same as fake, and shouting “social construct” can end an argument without winning it. What did Berger, Searle, Hacking and Butler actually claim, and where does human nature fit in?

Philosophy started in the marketplace: Socrates talked to anyone who would answer and Diogenes ate in the agora. Plato’s Academy gave us the word “academic”, the Stoics named a school after a public porch, and philosophy cafés pulled it back onto the street. So who does it better, and is the degree worth the money?