History of Philosophy | The Philosopher

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"Public": An Essay by Ian Olasov (Keywords: Humanities; Intellectuals; Education; History of Philosophy; Activism)

"Whatever else the history of philosophy is, it is the history of the tensions between philosophy’s public-facing and scholastic tendencies"

Chi Rainer Bornfree

7 min read

The New Basics

"Contradiction": An Essay by Chi Rainer Bornfree (Keywords: History of Philosophy; Metaphysics; Violence; Hegel; Heidegger; Graham Priest; Rosa Luxemburg)

"Contradiction is a problem for knowing, a problem for doing things together, and a problem for living and feeling."

Amy Kind

8 min read

The New Basics

"Imagination": An essay by Amy Kind (Keywords: Epistemology; History of Philosophy; Reason; Perception; Thought Experiments)

"Just as perception is not the enemy of reason despite its fallibility, neither is imagination."

Dan Taylor

10 min read

The New Basics

"Method": An essay by Dan Taylor (Keywords: History of philosophy; Authority; struggle; Metaphor; Causality; Kant; Foucault; Spinoza)

"Philosophy at the service of the authority’s demands for deference and submission might not really be philosophy at all."

Ignacio L. Moya

12 min read

Essays

"Transcendental Pessimism": An Essay by Ignacio L. Moya (Keywords: Metaphysics; Anti-natalism; Psychology; Schopenhauer; German Philosophy; History of Philosophy)

"if philosophical pessimism is to be seen as something more than a 'mere' temperament or attitude, what might this be?"

Tzuchien Tho

9 min read

Essays

"Analytic vs Continental Philosophy: The Weirding of the Divide": An Essay by Tzuchien Tho

"The phenomenon of 'continental' philosophy or even 'French theory' is a thoroughly Anglophone one."

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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