Kierkegaard and the Metaphysical Project (Part II) - Michael Weston

This sceptical question can only occur from within the pursuit of truth itself: even if it appears as necessarily unanswerable, it must...

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Kierkegaard and the Metaphysical Project (Part I) - Michael Weston

In Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Kierkegaard remarks that in his earlier Philosophical Fragments he had ignored the difference bet...

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I sink therefore I am - Carolyn J. Dean

even since he [Nietzsche] became famous has he ever been anything but an occasion for misunderstanding? --Georges Bataille, The Accursed...

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Hannah Arendt: Life is a Story - Julia Kristeva

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) writes the following: 'It seems as if certain people are so exposed in their own lives (and only their li...

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In Defense of a Dogma - H. P. Grice; P. F. Strawson

In his article "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," Professor Quine advances a number of criticisms of the supposed distinction betwee...

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The Critical Journal of Philosophy Introduction on The Essence of Philosophical Criticism Generally, and its Relationship to the Present State of Philosophy in Particular

by Hegel and Schelling 1801 IN WHATEVER DOMAIN OF ART or [speculative] science it is employed, criticism requires a standard which is ...

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The Russell-Einstein Manifesto

This title is sometimes given to a document that was the outcome of a long standing collaboration between Einstein and Russell. It was p...

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The Plurality and Conditionality of Values - John Kekes

Whether the world is one or many is among the oldest questions of philosophy. Is there an underlying unity behind the multiplicity of w...

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On What There Is - W.V.O Quine

A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put in three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: ‘What is there?’ It ...

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Taking pragmatism seriously - Ruth Anna Putnam

Let me say, right off the bat, that I don’t know what it means today to be a pragmatist. Richard Rorty calls himself a pragmatist, but...

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