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An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: From Ancient Philosophy to Chinese Buddhism

Posted on October 21, 2024May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

“An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy” unlocks the mystery of ancient Chinese philosophy and unravels the complexity of Chinese Buddhism by placing them in the contemporary context of discourse. Elucidates the…

Posted in Intentionality, Mental States and Processes, Metaphysics of Mind and BodyTagged Chinese Buddhism, Chinese philosophy, mind, Wei-shiLeave a comment

Psychiatry and philosophy of science

Posted on June 12, 2015June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Publisher: Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science explores conceptual issues in psychiatry from the perspective of analytic philosophy of science. Through an examination of those features of psychiatry that distinguish it…

Posted in Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Psychiatry and Psychopathology, Science Logic & MathematicsTagged mental illness, neurology, psychiatry, reductionismLeave a comment

Sex, Lies, and Bigotry: The Canon of Philosophy

Posted on January 30, 2022May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

In “Sex, Lies, and Bigotry: The Canon of Philosophy” I explore several questions: What does it mean for our understanding of the history of philosophy that women philosophers have been…

Posted in Discrimination, Feminist Approaches to Philosophy, Gender and Equality, Women in PhilosophyTagged academia, blame, canon, Exclusion, ignorance, intentionalityLeave a comment

Introduction to The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy

Posted on October 7, 2024June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

In this introductory chapter to “The Routledge Companion of Feminist Philosophy”, Garry, Khader and Stone examine the different applications of feminist philosophy outside political philosophy, as well as the different…

Posted in Feminist PhilosophyTagged feminist philosophy, intersectionalityLeave a comment

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away

Posted on May 19, 2016June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…would Plato make of Google, and of the idea that knowledge can be crowdsourced rather than reasoned out by experts? Plato at the Googleplex is acclaimed thinker Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s…

Posted in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, History of Western Philosophy, Philosophical Education, Philosophy Introductions and Anthologies, PlatoTagged introduction, Plato, value of philosophyLeave a comment

Observations upon experimental philosophy to which is added The description of a new blazing world / written by the thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent princesse, the Duchess of Newcastle.

Posted on June 22, 2018May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Publisher’s Note: Margaret Cavendish’s 1668 edition of Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, presented here in its first modern edition, holds a unique position in early modern philosophy. Cavendish rejects the Aristotelianism…

Posted in 17th/18th Century Philosophy, History of Western Philosophy, History: Feminist Philosophy, Margaret Cavendish, Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Value TheoryTagged empiricism, experimental philosophy, matter theory, rationalism, Robert BoyleLeave a comment

Rational Theology

Posted on October 26, 2023June 26, 2025 by Lea Cantor

Ancient Greek philosophy arose in a culture whose world had always teemed with divinities. “Everything is full of gods, ”said Thales (Aristotle De an. 1.5, 411a8), and the earliest “theories…

Posted in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, History of Western Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, Pre-Socratic PhilosophyTagged epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, Presocratics, rationalism, theology, XenophanesLeave a comment

On the Outskirts of the Canon: The Myth of the Lone Female Philosopher, and What to Do about It

Posted on July 1, 2019June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…and indirectly – to their exclusion from courses in the history of philosophy. This article explores three ways in which we could solve this problem. The first is to create…

Posted in 17th/18th Century Philosophy, History of Western Philosophy, Mary Astell, Philosophical Education, Philosophy of Gender, Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Teaching Philosophy, Value Theory, Women in PhilosophyTagged canon, early modern philosophy, women philosophersLeave a comment

The Political is Political: Conformity and the Illusion of Dissent in Contemporary Political Philosophy

Posted on September 26, 2017May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Publisher’s Note: Nobody should really have to point out that political philosophy is political. Yet in this highly original and provocative book Lorna Finlayson argues that in fact it is necessary…

Posted in Political Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, Value TheoryTagged critical theory, methodology of political philosophy, political realism, political theory, RawlsLeave a comment

On the Interface of Philosophy and Language in Africa: Some Practical and Theoretical Considerations

Posted on January 17, 2022May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…confront this predicament without success, the contention here is that Africans cannot continue to philosophize sine die in European languages and according to European models of philosophy as if African…

Posted in African Languages, African/Africana Philosophy, Language of Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Philosophical TraditionsTagged european languages, oraural expression, written expressionLeave a comment

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