A space for slower philosophical writing.
Thinking, more than anything else, is something we do together; slowly, carefully, with attention to what cannot be argued away.
Much of what is written today is written quickly: to argue, to react, to win. We are interested in another kind of writing — the kind that takes its time, that listens before it answers, that follows a thought far enough to find out what is wrong with it.
SyātCast is at once a journal, a small publisher of early-career philosophical writing, and the home of an annual summer intensive in philosophical method and writing. Curated by two incoming graduate students at the University of Toronto and Yale University, the platform exists because we wanted a particular kind of writing community to exist in India, and could not find one we could simply join.
The name itself is a declaration. Syāt, from the Sanskrit, is the qualifier the Jain logicians used to mark every philosophical claim — perhaps, in some respect, it may be. To begin in syāt is to begin with the recognition that things may be otherwise, and that this recognition is not a weakness of thinking but its honest condition.
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