Introduction: In increasing numbers, philosophers are coming to read Sellars’ “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind” (1997, hereafter EPM) as having dealt the definitive death blow to the idea that…
Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science
The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science is a comprehensive resource for feminist thinking about and in the sciences. Its 33 chapters were written exclusively for this Handbook by…
Zhuangzi and the Obsession with Being Right
Since Zhuangzi laments the human obsesssion with being right, he would be highly amused at the scholarly obsession with being right on the meaning of his text, especially on the…
Selections from her Correspondence with Descartes
…regulation, on the nature of virtue and the greatest good, on the nature of human freedom of the will and its compatibility with divine causal determination, and on political philosophy….
Hegel’s Moral Philosophy
…self-actualization, his views on moral philosophy are exhausted by his criticisms of Kant, whom he treats as paradigmatic exponent of the standpoint of morality. The aim of this chapter is…
An Essay on African Philosophical Thought. The Akan Conceptual Scheme
In this sustained and nuanced attempt to define a genuinely African philosophy, Kwame Gyekye rejects the idea that an African philosophy consists simply of the work of Africans writing on…
The Philosophy of Life: A New Reading of the Zhuangzi
Chen Guying, one of the leading scholars on Daoism in contemporary China, provides in his book The Philosophy of Life, A New Reading of the Zhuangzi a detailed analysis and…
Old Wives’ Tales and Philosophical Delusions: On ‘the Problem of Women and African Philosophy’
…philosophy. I investigate the possibility that African women are not so much excluded from the institutionalized discipline of philosophy, as preferring fiction as a genre for intellectual expression. This hypothesis…
Political Philosophy
Publisher’s Note: Political philosophy, perhaps even more than other branches of philosophy, calls for constant renewal to reflect not just re-readings of the tradition but also the demands of current…
Philosophy of Mind (Third Edition)
Publisher’s Note: The philosophy of mind has long been part of the core philosophy curriculum, and this book is the classic, comprehensive survey of the subject. Designed as an introduction…