Samir Chopra

Professor of Philosophy, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Samir Chopra is professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is the author of several books, including A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents (2011), co-authored with Laurence White. He writes online at samirchopra.com and at The Nation, The Los Angeles Review of Books and Jacobin, among others.

Written by Samir Chopra

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ANXIETY

Anxiety isn’t a pathology. It drives us to push back the unknown

‘I’m anxious, therefore I enquire.’ Anxiety isn’t a problem to be solved; it drives philosophical enquiry and makes us human

by Samir Chopra