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The Correspondence Between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Rene Descartes

Posted on September 6, 2018May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…extant philosophical writings by Elisabeth, revealing her mastery of metaphysics, analytic geometry, and moral philosophy, as well as her keen interest in natural philosophy. The letters are essential reading for…

Tagged Descartes, early modern philosophy, mind/body dualismLeave a comment

Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy

Posted on January 20, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Publisher’s Note: Taste, perhaps the most intimate of the five senses, has traditionally been considered beneath the concern of philosophy, too bound to the body, too personal and idiosyncratic. Yet,…

Tagged aesthetic taste, aesthetics, philosophy of foodLeave a comment

Clarifying the Images (Ming xiang)

Posted on February 1, 2018May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…Changes. Bi catalogues and explains the relationship between images, ideas, language, and meaning. A key text that continues to be of importance in Chinese aesthetics, philosophy of language, and hermeneutics….

Tagged aesthetics, Chinese philosophy, hermeneutics, images, philosophy of languageLeave a comment

The Philosophy of the Upanishads

Posted on January 20, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Overview: Not focused on any one Upanishad in particular, it conveys the spirit in which the Upanishads were written and provides a short overview of their Metaphysics, Ethics and Epistemology….

Tagged existence, Hinduism, philosophy of religion, the selfLeave a comment

Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century

Posted on August 11, 2019May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…of more recent feminist thinkers. The result is a more gender-balanced account of early modern thought than has hitherto been available. Broad’s clear and accessible exploration of this still-unfamiliar area…

Tagged early modern philosophy, history of modern philosophy, women philosophersLeave a comment

Forty acres and a mule’ for women: Rawls and feminism

Posted on January 20, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…without such social and political equality, justice as fairness is as meaningful to women as the unrealized promise of ‘Forty acres and a mule’ was to the newly freed slaves….

Tagged feminist ethics, John Rawls, slavery, social and political philosophy, social contractLeave a comment

22 Atmospherics: Abortion Law and Philosophy

Posted on January 13, 2016May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Abstract: In 1934, Karl N. Llewellyn published a lively essay trumpeting the dawn of legal realism, “On Philosophy in American Law.” The charm of his defective little piece is its…

Tagged Gonzalez v. Carhart, Karl Llewellyn, law, legal realism, maternalism, partial-birth abortion act, paternalismLeave a comment

Ecofeminist Philosophy: A Western Perspective on What It Is and Why It Matters

Posted on April 26, 2016May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…Warren answers these and other questions from a Western perspective. Warren looks at the variety of positions in ecofeminism, the distinctive nature of ecofeminist philosophy, ecofeminism as an ecological position,…

Tagged animal ethics, ecofeminism, environmental ethics, feminismLeave a comment

Hipparchia’s Choice: An Essay Concerning Women, Philosophy, Etc

Posted on January 20, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…teach us about the relation of philosophy to experience? Now with a new epilogue, Hipparchia’s Choice points the way toward a discipline that is accountable to history, feminism, and society….

Tagged existentialism, feminist philosophy, methodologyLeave a comment

Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction

Posted on February 2, 2021October 4, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…methods. It is designed for students in both philosophy and the social sciences. Topics include ontology, objectivity, method, measurement, and causal inference, and such issues as well-being and climate change….

Tagged causal inference, measurement, rational choice models, well-beingLeave a comment

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