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Donovan Irven

18 min read

Essays

"Beyond Free Will": An Essay by Donovan Irven (Keywords: Freedom; Existentialism; Neurophilosophy)

"Freedom cannot be a property of the will, for freedom is the ontological condition that makes willing possible."

Jana Bacevic

11 min read

Essays

"Philosophy Herself": An Essay by Jana Bacevic (Keywords: Beauvoir; Feminism; Lived Experience)

"Philosophy written by men gets positioned as philosophy; philosophy written by women gets positioned as feminist philosophy."

Eraldo Souza dos Santos

11 min read

Reviews

"Seeing Civil Disobedience Like a State": Eraldo Souza dos Santos reviews "Seeing Like a State" by Erin Pineda (Keywords: Political Philosophy; Liberalism; Activism)

"To see civil disobedience like an activist is to see civil disobedience as a decolonizing praxis."

Jason Blakely

11 min read

Reviews

"Rationality is Me": A Review by Jason Blakely (Keywords: Pinker; Social Science; Enlightenment)

"In Pinker’s tale the rational, technocratic, liberal middle is a kind of virtuous and beleaguered minority."

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The Philosopher Team

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Editorial

"Volunteering Opportunities with The Philosopher"

"We are looking for people to join our team in 2025 to help us develop and expand some of the things that we do."

"Supporting The Philosopher's Mission in 2025: An Appeal for Donations"

The Philosopher Team

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Editorial

"Supporting The Philosopher's Mission in 2025: An Appeal for Donations"

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Jeff Malpas

17 min read

Essays

A Place for Thinking": An Essay by Jeff Malpas (Keywords: Solitude; Place; Descartes; Finitude)

"It is in its situatedness, in its being placed, that thinking finds its very possibility and its proper ground."

Alexandre Leskanich

13 min read

Essays

"Cosmic Invalidity": An Essay by Alexandre Leskanich (Keywords: Cioran; Nothingness; Pessimism)

"If Nietzsche was the great contrarian of the nineteeth century, Cioran, to a less famous extent, is the great contrarian of the twentieth."

Dan Taylor

16 min read

Essays

"On Chess": An Essay by Dan Taylor (Keywords: Games; Free Will; Spinoza; George Eliot)

"The history of chess and philosophy has yet to be written. And yet the history of the latter is replete with references to the former."

Leo Zaibert

48 min read

Reviews

"Embracing Retributivism": A Review by Leo Zaibert; Plus Response from Gregg D. Caruso

"A 'morality' that jettisons moral responsibility, and that affirms that no one is deserving of anything, strikes many as implausible."

Thomas Bartscherer

13 min read

Essays

"Thinking Out Of Order": An Essay by Thomas Bartscherer (Keywords: Mind; Metaphilosophy; Hannah Arendt)

"When we think, we 'withdraw' from the world of appearances, in order to make present to the mind what is absent from the senses."

Naomi Waltham-Smith

15 min read

Essays

"Take it or Leave it": An Essay by Naomi Waltham-Smith (Keywords: Academic Freedom; Free Speech)

"What is it that we defend under the banner of “academic freedom”? At what possible costs?"

THE PHILOSOPHER

Published since 1923

THE PHILOSOPHER

Published since 1923

Official journal of the Philosophical Society of England (PSE), a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). Registered UK Charity No. 1205921.

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