What is Philosophilia?

Philosophilia is a YouTube channel promoting intersectional, activist philosophy. Hosted by Jack Laurian Pascoe, its core principles are radical reasoning and radical love — meaning its thinking is based in passion, compassion, rationality, and recognition.

The project is built around a theory about how value and power have been shaped by patriarchy—a theory called the politics of penetration. Definitions of key words and special terms can be found in the Glossary. An inner circle of passionate supporters funds Philosophilia; you can join them here.

Philosophilia is also intended to be a hub connecting fair-minded (that is, socially and ecologically oriented) thinkers, researchers, activists and supporters across disciplines and national borders alike, to show how all the battles we fight are related, to enable us to explore what that might mean for how we fight them, and thus to offer—and help others find—new answers to difficult questions.

Speaking of difficult questions, we take the Acknowledgement of Country very seriously.

Why this, why me, why now? Jack looks back

Back in the late 1960s I was a dreamy six-year-old living in a suburban house halfway up a cliff on the edge of what is now Davidson National Park—and already I knew what I wanted to be...

We promote peace generally and amiable self-regulation in public discourse to that end, and therefore demand civil interaction on our sites. Passion is welcome; acrimony is not.