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What do I mean by social philosophy, calling myself a Social Philosopher?

I mean it in the ordinary sense of both words. Social as interactions between individuals, and Philosopher as someone who generates knowledge on a topic based on knowledge-production techniques with fundamental assumptions thereof examined.

I take social issues as a very broad scholarly and intellectual inquiry and endeavour: it is through social interactions that we may make sense of our worlds. Epistemological relations of knowledge and knowledge-production are embedded in cultural and inter-individual interactions and socialization(s). Social philosophy encompasses class, gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, politics, history, anthropology, sociology, social science, economics, psychology, philosophy, law, and morality. The hard sciences are also governed, at least in part, by social interactions and inter-individual knowledge generation and relay and the construction of theory, novelty and utility. We pursue hard science for the social benefits it may bring us.

This is in contrast to the academic sub-discipline or field in which its ambit and scope is more narrow, and more narrowly defined as examining “questions about the foundations of social institutions, social behavior, and interpretations of society in terms of ethical values rather than empirical relations” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_philosophy

My entries and books are intended so as to constitute an ecology of mind technologies designed in effects to augment and foster ethical consciousness and critical, flexible and dynamic thinking.

I write from a masculinist, pro-feminist perspective.

Feminism, for all its contradictions and with the varied individual and group idiosyncrasies of feminists and women, just like with masculinity, foundationally stems from the notion that women are entitled to a collective identity based on their gender, as is just and fair. I am pro-feminist for this sole (umbrella) reason: for women to be able to place themselves as individuals within a larger taxonomic category of woman/women corresponding with and moored to a social and biological reality, and thus strengthening these individual identities. This is why I identify as masculinist pro-feminist.

As part and parcel of being-and-becoming a social philosopher and author, I would like to urgently proffer a non-human centric ‘non-speciesist’ conception of society as a conceptual basis in which my philosophy operates and is animated; this is to pressingly advance a conception of ‘society’ to include interactions between all sentient creatures, and thus advancing an expansive conception of social justice, as corollary.¹

These are some of the core features of my writings, and published informational sources such as the video linked above, integrally, signposting and informing my ideological positionings, in orientation.

I warmly and happily concede that social justice is a never-ending project of knowledge applied and enacted with sophisticated respectful relationship, unleashing cooperative potentials continuously, as a self-fulfilling social mandate.

1. Derrida pointed out the implicit but acute violence inherent in the taxonomic outcasting replete in the language concept of ‘animal‘, especially since it serves to function as excluding sentient creatures from human (non-animal) society. Similar to this, is the narrowly self-serving, and yet most often utterly impotent or a blatant Orwellian reversal of truth, distinction between ‘the civilised‘ and ‘the savage‘. For a deconstruction of the violence in the taxonomy of ‘animal‘ please see Derrida featuring in the video by John Tracey 2008, Jacques Derrida And The Question Of “The Animal”, YouTube, 25 June, viewed June 5 2025, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CAafoodASM> ↩︎