I started blogging here in the summer of 2012, four years into my Ph.D. program. When I began that program in the fall of 2008, I didn’t know much of anything about feminist philosophy, and I didn’t care to know anything about it. I thought gender was a shallow and inconsequential...
Apart from that, I have been in close contact with various other projects where there was an ethics component. I have always felt a little dissatisfied with the place of philosophy in these projects. Continue reading "Should philosophers lead interdisciplinary projects? (Guest post by Mandi Astola...
He studied theology in Kampen and philosophy in Leiden and Oxford. He received his PhD in philosophy in 1985 from the University of Amsterdam (supervisor Trudy van Asperen). From 1974 on he worked at the University of Amsterdam as assistant and associate professor of ethics and jurisprudence in...
Wang1 se ssays on astronomy, ethics, methodology, and are collect 37、ed in the Lunheng (“ Balanced Largely self-taught,Discussions th)e, work for which he is mainly known, encyclopedic knowledge of history and science in his work, and it was primarily as an encyclopedic resource that ...
Pay to publish and open access have been studied extensively, but less so in disciplines such as philosophy and ethics. This study examines the habits and perceptions of researchers from these two fields in Spain. The study draws on data from a survey (completed by 201 out of 541 researchers...
Works like 'Nicomachean Ethics', 'Poetics', and 'Metaphysics' are still closely studied and widely taught. He introduced a distinct idea that philosophy could not be purely speculative. This idea would go on to influence rationalism, nihilism, atheism, and many more schools of thought. Friedrich...
Peter Ungerstudied under A.J. Ayer at Oxford University and earned his Ph.D. in 1966. He currently holds the title of Professor of Philosophy at New York University. Unger's work is focused in metaphysics, epistemology, applied ethics, and philosophy of mind. He is well known for his boo...
capitalism and the society it has produced, arguing that because there is an absence of any coherent moral code, the sense of purpose and community has been lost for most people in modern society. Macintyre argues for a return to purpose and community through a return to virtue ethics. ...
Their goal was to convert the locals, and in their efforts they studied and translated Chinese philosophy in earnest. As this tide faded away, a new wave of Protestant missionaries took its place, with their own translation work. Enter the twentieth century and new generations of sinologists, ...
His story began in his hometown of Athens, Greece but unfolded through the writings of his students and fellow philosophers. The field of ethics was the specialty of Socrates and introduced a concept that has been dubbed aselenchus, or the Socratic method. He contributed much to the field of...