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Edward Tylor’s Animism and Its Intellectual Aftermath
Animism as an anthropological concept was launched by British evolutionary anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917), whose two-volume book...
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The Theory of Art and Culture
While most of his readers have no problem classifying Scruton as a political philosopher of a conservative persuasion, his genuine interest in art is...
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Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture
This article analyses the evolutionist discourses on the senses that emerged in the late 19th century, when theories on the evolution of species were...
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A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859
This open access book brings together for the first time all aspects of the tragic life and fascinating work of the polymath Robert Leslie Ellis...
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MARGARET MEAD: Samoan Adventure with Much Ado
A young woman who having recently graduated set off to study the sexual mores of the population of an island in the Pacific. She had studied under...
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Ayer’s Book of Errors and the Crises of Contemporary Western Culture
This essay takes the position, consistent with Ayer’s own retrospective judgments, that the philosophical significance of Language, Truth and Logic...
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Animism and Cognitive Science of Religion: A Critical Perspective
The first thing that anyone learns about animism is that the word is most closely associated with the nineteenth-century anthropologist Sir Edward...
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Ellis’s Philosophy and Bacon Scholarship
This chapter offers an account of Ellis’s philosophical development in the period between the 1830s and 1850s. The focus is on the background and...
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The Spectre of Conservatism
In his keynote address to the 2nd International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg am Wechsel in 1977, von Wright announced the publication of...
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A Modest Spinozist: George Eliot and the Limits of Rationalism
George Eliot’s 1856 translation of Spinoza’s Ethics was finally published in 2019. It draws scholarly attention to her role at the forefront of the...
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Sex Robots: A Twenty-First Century Innovation in the Culture Wars
This volume brings together a set of conceptual, moral, and cultural concerns carefully to assess a significant public policy issue: the development...
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Bridgman and the normative independence of science: an individual physicist in the shadow of the bomb
Physicist Percy Bridgman has been taken by Heather Douglas to be an exemplar defender of an untenable value-free ideal for science. This picture is...
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Whither Postmodernism? Whether It’s New Liberalism?
The next chapter argues for a reassessment of postmodernism, both as a theory and as a mode of philosophy. Particularly in light of thinkers like...
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Translating Dark into Bright: Diary of a Post-Critical Year
This is an account of a reading project that began in February 2020. Australia was burning, a pandemic was simmering, the two of us were early in our...
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Freedom of Enquiry
This chapter defends unfettered intellectual enquiry, beginning by noting the subjective undesirability of living in an atmosphere of taboo. Social...
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The Francophile Philosophy, Science, and Literature of Sarah A. Dorsey
Mississippi-born woman of letters Sarah Anne Ellis Dorsey (1829–1879) deserves a place among nineteenth century American philosophers. Dorsey was a...
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A re-evaluation of the modern psychiatric hospital from the standpoint of the Kyoto school’s critique of modernity
Michel Foucault defines the modern psychiatric hospital as an institution of power that excludes and disciplines those who are deemed immoral,...