A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird

Derek Thompson interviews Agnes Callard, the University of Chicago professor, about her new theory called “the uni-context." : A context is a set of circumstances that tell you how you should act. For most of human history, contexts were local and multiple. If you wanted to know how you should act, you would look around. Am I in a field? Am I inside my home? Am I in the church? Am I in a bar? You…