Tag: philosophy

Peter Winch on political legitimacy

28 August 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Lynette Reid, editor of Political Authority: Contract and Critique   I was a student (along with Olli Lagerspetz and others) of the British philosopher Peter Winch (1926–1997) in the last years of his life – the 1990s in Illinois. This was an era when...

Read More

Why did Russell abandon his 1913 theory of knowledge manuscript?

29 June 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by James R. Connelly, author of Wittgenstein’s Critique of Russell’s Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement   In May–June 1913, Bertrand Russell wrote roughly 350 pages of a draft manuscript provisionally titled Theory of Knowledge. His goal was to apply logical methods developed in Principia Mathematica...

Read More

Engaging the citizenry

15 May 2025 Author Interviews

This is an interview with Sarah Murray and Lachlan Umbers, editors of Civic Engagement in Australian Democracy   What inspired this edited collection on Civic Engagement in Australian Democracy? Australian democracy depends fundamentally upon an active, engaged citizenry. In this respect, however, Australian democracy appears to be in decline. The...

Read More

Wittgenstein’s philosophy of others

19 March 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Constantine Sandis, author of Wittgenstein on Other Minds: Strangers in a Strange Land If some people looked like elephants and others like cats, or fish, one wouldn’t expect them to understand each other and things would look much more like what they really are....

Read More

The prospects for a scientific sociology

2 September 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Christian Robitaille, editor of The Anthem Companion to Raymond Boudon It is often argued by contemporary sociologists that the quest for a value-free, scientific study of society is vain. Indeed, sociology is currently heavily influenced by critical theorists, poststructuralists and other normatively oriented theorists....

Read More

On Robinson Jeffers: the poetry and philosophy of inhumanism

27 July 2024 Author Interviews

This is an interview by Matthew Calarco, author of How Not to Be Human: The Inhumanist Philosophy of Robinson Jeffers 1.Who is Robinson Jeffers, and how did you first become interested in his poetry? Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) is a poet who lived and wrote for most of his adult life...

Read More

The fourth school on power

30 June 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Waqas M Awan, author of Power of Sage: An Antithesis to Machiavellian Prince Since the cognitive revolution in humanity about 70,000 years ago, humans have mastered the art of cooperation on a massive scale. No species on Earth has the tendency to form as...

Read More

Philosophy, rhetoric and aesthetics

19 May 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Paul Allen Miller, author of Theory Does Not Exist: Comparative Ancient and Modern Explorations in Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, and Rhetoric The world we live in is not that of Plato’s Socrates. It is a world of fragments. The tropic language with which we try to...

Read More

America’s once and future king

7 May 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by W. B. Allen, author of Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws: A Critical Edition My new translation of and commentary on Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws has been recently released (Anthem). I prepared the work upon the consideration that it would be only the third...

Read More

A life with Wittgenstein

7 April 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Peter Hacker, author of A Beginner’s Guide to the Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein Wittgenstein studies flourished in the second half of the twentieth century, as philosophers struggled with the interpretation of his two great masterpieces, the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus and the Philosophical Investigations. Many of...

Read More