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Doing Without Masters: Oxford Philosophy and the Analytic-Continental Divide
This final chapter traces a trajectory from Ayer’s response to Sartre to his later polemical statements concerning the divide between analytic and...
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The Radical Naturalism of Naturalistic Philosophy of Science
Naturalism in the philosophy of science has proceeded differently than the familiar forms of meta-philosophical naturalism in other sub-fields,...
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A quantitative history of ordinary language philosophy
There is a standard story told about the rise and fall of ordinary language philosophy: it was a widespread, if not dominant, approach to philosophy...
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Experimental Philosophy and Ordinary Language Philosophy
This chapter tries to elucidate the complex relationship between ordinary language philosophyordinary language philosophy (OLP) and experimental...
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William Bechtel and Linus Ta-Lun Huang,
Philosophy of Neuroscience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2022), 94 pp., $20.00 (Paperback)This new monograph Philosophy of Neuroscience is a novel contribution to the relevant literatures. In this book review, I first summarise its...
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Having a Mind on the Borders of Philosophy, Literature, and Politics
This introduction describes Iris Murdoch’s education at Oxford and early career as a researcher at Newnham College, Cambridge. While before and...
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Analytic Philosophy in the Philippines
In this paper, I provide a brief overview of the development of analytic philosophy in the Philippines. I first highlight the circumstances that led...
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The Philosophy of Place and the Place of Philosophy
The text provides an overview of a current in contemporary phenomenology and hermeneutics that puts place at the center of its thinking and seeks to...
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Nishitani Keiji’s Philosophy of Culture: The Existential Interpretation of Myth, the Overcoming of Nihilism, and the Future of Humanity
This paper provides a reading of Nishitani’s philosophy of culture. It argues that the advent of nihilism is the logical conclusion of what will be...
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Review of Julie Chajes, Recycled Lives: A History of Reincarnation in Blavatsky’s Theosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xii + 215 p., Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-19-090913-0, £64
This is a review of Julie Chajes, Recycled Lives: A History of Reincarnation in Blavatsky’s Theosophy , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019. The...
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A brief history of analytic philosophy in Hong Kong
This paper offers a brief historical survey of the development of analytic philosophy in Hong Kong from 1911 to the present day. At first, Western...
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Anglo-American philosophy in Taiwan: a centennial review
This article systematically surveys the history of Anglo-American philosophy in Taiwan since the late nineteenth century. Contrary to conventional...
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First Philosophy
A first philosophy for a given field of inquiry is like a supreme court. It is the final court of appeal for disputed knowledge. In the supreme...
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Philosophy as Ecological Practice
This essay reflects on the practice of philosophy in the ecological emergency, arguing that the latter asks philosophy to reconsider the ancient...
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Philosophy of Science and Philosophy: The Long Flight Home
In this article, I argue that there is philosophy of science since philosophy existed. Thus, the idea that the philosophy of science was born with...
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Introduction: Politics, Art and Philosophy
The late Sir Roger Scruton was a Cambridge-educated philosopher, who had two major fields of interests: the philosophy of art and political...
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Schopenhauer, the Philosophy of Music, and the Wisdom of Classical Indian Philosophy
Among Western philosophers, Schopenhauer is one of the few who seeks to clarify the nature of music, and its effects upon us. He claims that music is...
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Lyotard, the differend and the philosophy of deep disagreement
This paper examines the philosophy of Jean-Francois Lyotard in relation to the analytic philosophy of deep disagreement. It argues not just that his...
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Bad Academic Philosophy Responsible for Global Problems
Why has the damagingly irrational character of universities implementing knowledge-inquiry not been noticed and corrected? Academic philosophy,...