Linda Martín Alcoff

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TVTragic Vision

  6 / 10
• VAVital Affirmation

  6 / 10
• WPWill to Power

  6 / 10
• TRTrust in Reason

  6 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Maria LugonesFORGE

  World-traveling — playful pluralism against the logic of purity.

• Mary CalkinsPILGRIM

  Personalist self-psychology — the self as primary datum of philosophy.

• Aspasia of MiletusFORGE

  Rhetorician of Pericles' Athens; teacher of Socrates by report.

• Catharine MacKinnonFORGE

  Toward a Feminist Theory of the State — sexual hierarchy as the deepest politics.

• Édouard GlissantFORGE

  Poetics of Relation — opacity and the archipelagic right to be unknown.

• Cheshire CalhounFORGE

  Feminist philosophy — moral failure, hope, and what's worth doing.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Linda Martín Alcoff's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Premortem →

  Imagine the failure of your plan in vivid detail before you start.

• Steelmanning the opposite →

  Write the strongest possible version of the view you most reject.

• Switch sides →

  Argue both sides of a debate, alternating, until you no longer know which side you started on.