A Defense of the History of Philosophy
Graham Priest (CUNY, Melbourne) presents a brief defense of the history of philosophy over at the OUP blog. One of my friends said that he regards the history of philosophy as rather like a text book...
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The Ethics of Honoring
The recent wave of student protests in the United States have focused on a range of issues related to the status and treatment of racial minorities and other vulnerable parties on campus. One issue...
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Teaching and the Philosophical Canon
“Perhaps all professional philosophers have wrestled with the problem of how to cover all the important things in the limited time of a single course.” But what are the important things? And who are...
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The History of the Past 40 Years of Analytic Philosophy
A new call for papers has been circulating, soliciting work on the history of “Late Analytic Philosophy.” From the CFP: In the last 25 to 30 years historical attention has been directed toward analytic...
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Philosophy Travel & Tourism
Guy Crain, professor of philosophy at Rose State College, writes in with the following inquiry: I’m wondering if there is a resource with collected information about philosophy-related...
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Live From 2003: BEARS Is Back Online
BEARS? Sounds familiar. Then I clicked and saw this — —and it all came back to me. Yes, kids, this is what the internet used to look like (and this was a pretty smart-looking site for the time). Begun...
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Are History’s “Greatest Philosophers” All That Great? (guest post by Gregory...
The following is a guest post* by Gregory Lewis, a medical doctor and amateur philosopher, in which he looks through a statistical lens at the formation of the Western philosophical canon. You can read...
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Academia and Unselfishness
Academia is a selfish sport. From the time you begin graduate school, you are rewarded for self-absorbed fixations on your personal advancement and narrowly focused research… Opportunities are rare,...
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A Visualization of Influence in the History of Philosophy
“I don’t know a lot about philosophy,” says Grant Louis Oliveira, a data analyst and quantitative social sciences researcher with an undergraduate degree in political science. He continues: I’d like to...
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How Journal Capture Led to the Dominance of Analytic Philosophy in the U.S.
How is it that analytic philosophy came to be the dominant philosophical style in the 20th Century in the United States? From inside the practice, the answer seems to be, “because it is a particularly...
View ArticlePhilosophy Professor Receiving Death Threats (updated with transcript, letter...
Tommy Curry, professor of philosophy at Texas A & M University, has been receiving racist hate mail and death threats in the wake of an opinion piece at a conservative website that frames remarks...
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A Semantic-Network Approach to the History of Philosophy (guest post by Mark...
What can we learn from constructing semantic networks of familiar works in the history of philosophy? A fair amount, according to Mark Alfano, a philosopher at Delft University of Technology and...
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A Graphic Review of a Graphic Philosophy Book (guest post by Adam Ferner)
The following is a guest post* by Adam Ferner (Royal Institute of Philosophy). It’s a review of a history of modern philosophy in the style of a graphic novel by philosopher Steven Nadler (Wisconsin)...
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Philosophy In A World Of Mass Deception
Our current political situation is so horribly distressing that it is easy to lose sight of even more horrible things that may be on the horizon. A recent article at Business Insider briefly surveys...
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Being A Woman In Philosophy: Then and Now
From an essay about, among other things, the interplay between philosophy’s history and its current practices: Early in my academic career I had started to find the climate of academic philosophy...
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Descartes Did Not Invent Modern Philosophy
Christia Mercer (Columbia), writing in “The Stone” at The New York Times: René Descartes has long been credited with the near-single-handed creation of modern philosophy. Generations of students have...
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New Interdisciplinary Institute for Science & Technology Studies
The Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology & Society (AJI) has been launched at the University of South Carolina. The institute is named for Ann Johnson, who died last year at age 51. At...
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Sharp Declines in Philosophy, History, & Language Majors Since 2010 (guest...
The following is a guest post* by Eric Schwitzgebel, professor of philosophy at University of California, Riverside. It first appeared at his blog, The Splintered Mind. Sharp Declines in Philosophy,...
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JHP’s Best Book in the History of Philosophy Prize
Each year, the Journal of the History of Philosophy awards a prize for the best book published in the history of philosophy the previous year. This year’s winner is Shelley Weinberg, associate...
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JHP’s Best Article Prize Awarded
The Journal of the History of Philosophy has announced that Clare Carlisle, senior lecturer in philosophy and theology at King’s College London, is the winner of its best article prize for Volume 55....
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