By contrast, modern science and the analytic strain in modern philosophy seek to create a technical language to depict reality–and thus deprive themselves of the language they need to explain what ...

Contemporary philosophy has a problem. No one outside the philosophical tribe seems to be listening. The most abstract of the humanities, philosophy grows ever more marginal in academe. As core ...

Academe’s specialization has left John Stuart Mill out in the cold Contemporary academic philosophy is riven by a great divide: Either you adhere to a Continental perspective identified with Friedrich ...

Since the time of Descartes philosophers have sought to establish what justifies true beliefs by examining the epistemic conditions immediately underlying knowledge claims. As critics of this ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Via someone on the right (I don’t remember who, sorry) I learned of a minor tempest ...

SAINT-PAUL DE VENCE, France — The very idea of philosopher as art curator deeply interests me. One swiftly dreams of what Gilles Deleuze might have done with the opportunity to curate an art ...