It is often noted that Kant’s relation to nationality is ambiguous and seemingly paradoxical. Indeed, there is presently no consensus among Kantian scholars as to what, exactly, Kant’s own stance on sovereignty or nationalism actually was.
At least in certain cultures, many people seem to value being important. It is supposed to be a good thing if you become a U.S. President who ends a war or a Nobel-winning novelist who reimagines literature or a scientist who cures a terrible disease.
The very title of § 45 in Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment seems to undermine from the outset the possibility of a dialogue with contemporary art: “Beautiful art is an art to the extent that it seems at the same time to be nature”.…
In this post, Kimberly Hutching and Patricia Owens reference their APSR article “Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought: Recovery, Rejection, and Reconstitution“.…
What is the Beautiful? In Plato’s Hippias Major, Socrates and the sophist Hippias set out to answer this question. Along the way, they evaluate such answers as ‘the appropriate’, ‘the beneficial’, ‘gold’, and even ‘burying your parents’.…
The proposed European Super League for football might have stalled at its inception but it is unlikely to be the last we hear of the idea, in this or any other sport.…
The great eighteenth-century German philosopher, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), is known for his wide-ranging insights spanning the whole range of philosophical sub-disciplines, from epistemology and metaphysics to ethics and jurisprudence—and everything in between. Indeed, Kant’s influence on aesthetics, history, theology, and the sciences is undeniable.
Leaving aside the raging pandemic, and recognizing that Covid is not unconnected, there are two crises which define our time. First, the global weakening or collapse of democracy and rise of fascism: e.g., Trumpism in the U.S., repressive Indian Hindu nationalism, conservative Catholicism in Eastern Europe, Chinese “authoritarianism” (market Stalinism?), and whatever is going on in Brazil.
I would love to have a dinner with Philo of Alexandria even though we would be more likely to disagree on most issues.…
I probably should be naming some mighty and mysterious genius, one of the great philosophers I study or a mostly-lost tragic poet, but it would feel wrong somehow.…
In discussing the interconnections of action and character (ethos) in tragedy, Aristotle praises the Greek painter Polygnotos for his “fine depiction of character” (Poetics 1450a27), contrasting his work with that of Zeuxis, who, famous for his realism, does not depict character.…
Why is there something rather than nothing? The fact of existence cannot be explained by an appeal to any beings, since this would assume what it wants to prove.…
In the last 4000 days scientists have discovered more than 4000 new planets. Thousands of other candidate planets are currently being investigated.…
A dress that looks black and blue to one person looks white and gold to someone else. Where one person hears ‘Yanni,’ another hears ‘Laurel’. A bucket of tepid water feels hot to cold hands but cold to hot hands.
Hegel’s philosophy is notoriously difficult, but when I first studied his Phenomenology and Philosophy of Right in the mid 1970s I was struck by a simple idea that is at the core of both works: you can’t be yourself by yourself, but you need others in order to be who you are.…
Hegel has a reputation as a difficult philosopher, and often people treat the complexities of his texts as being due to his intensely systematic aims.…
I remember, as if it were yesterday, the moment I committed to studying Hegel. I was reading the Phenomenology of Spirit cover-to-cover for the first time.…
Hegel’s philosophy is shaped by his extreme systematic ambition: He argues that everything is interconnected, in one system, with one source of intelligibility for everything; and he commits to building his system not on a merely assumed foundation, but on arguments that engage philosophers who disagree, or those who are not already within his system.…
One of the things that I find especially compelling in Hegel is the idea that philosophy should not try to have a direct impact on what there is.…
On June 30th the Higher Education website initially launched with a small selection of 80 online textbooks, with more titles due to be added throughout the following months.…
Higher Education from Cambridge University Press is our new online textbook website, launched in August 2020. In recent months Cambridge University Press has introduced a new set of strategies to support changing teaching and learning needs as higher education institutions prepare for a more digitally driven future in the wake of pandemic.…
For many the lockdown has been an opportunity for thought, reading and writing – perhaps while queuing to enter the supermarket, after putting the kids to sleep, or while pedalling madly on the spot.…
Juneteenth is a not-yet-national holiday that commemorates June 19th, 1865, the day Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced that the Civil War had ended and that enslaved descendants of abducted Africans were now freed.…
Let’s face it – stepping (sitting) in front of a camera has become a staple component of working from home during the global pandemic.…
We humans are funny things, with social norms prescribing action in all kinds of different contexts—norms about how long to hold eye contact, how to defecate, how to use land.
Clearly, a 1-year-old man is young. Moreover, if someone is young at a given time, he is also young 1 second later—youth doesn’t vanish in 1 second.…
Many of us are discovering that working at home for a long stretch can be difficult. Staying productive and motivated is a challenge, and it is not always easy to find a routine to keep things running smoothly.…
Sets are ubiquitous and familiar: children get acquainted with sets of objects surrounding them very early on; secondary school students typically encounter sets of natural numbers and sets of real numbers in their maths curriculum. …
On 4th February Donald Trump delivered what may be his last State of the Union. He is facing a tough election later in the year and it comes as no surprise that his address was chock full of themes to get his base frothing at the mouth, among which was illegal immigration.…
Until 1st March enjoy free access to Robert Erlewine’s full article, ‘Samuel Hirsch, Hegel, and the Legacy of Ethical Monotheism’, published in Vol.…
Cambridge University Press has reached an agreement with the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) to publish their flagship journal, PMLA.…
One of the traditional assumptions of the debate over the ethical status of animals has long been that someone who is committed to reducing animal harm should not eat meat.…
Over its 30 year history, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy has aspired to be a venue for the feminist writing that gives words to experience, articulates the meanings of injustice, and gives those committed to feminist thinking and practice the strength to go on.…
Is what we ought to do strongly related to the kind of beings we are? At the level of social roles, it seems reasonable, or at least plausible, to answer ‘yes’.…
Throngs of young (and not so young) people refusing to pretend that the human race is not in the most serious crisis it has ever faced.…
In every thought, reason depends on the imagination to represent, envision, combine, create, and produce. Yet the imagination remains an incidental concept at best in standard philosophical discourse.…
My essay explores the nature of the myth of the Ancient Constitution, its manifestations over three centuries, and its historical and conceptual difficulties.
Cambridge University Press is partnering with the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) to publish Renaissance Quarterly, the leading American journal of Renaissance Studies.…
The thing about canons is that they seem sacred. Challenging them, even revisiting them, can seem heretical. Facing these facts is the first step in addressing the intransigence of the early modern philosophical canon. Step two involves noticing just how much the canon leaves out.
In his recent monograph, the renowned philosopher Charles Taylor targets genuinely big issues: What is the nature of language? What makes us human?…
Tad Schmaltz touches upon the important place of women in the history of philosophy and introduces a new special series by the Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
Reproduction on Film, the recently published special issue of The British Journal for the History of Science, investigates the theme of biological reproduction in the history of cinema, television, and other screen media.…
In this post, Anne Peters gives us an overview of the Symposium on Global Animal Law: Animals Matter in International Law and International Law Matters for Animals that is now published open access by AJIL Unbound.…
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council declaration, Nostra Aetate, Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia commissioned sculptor Joshua Koffman to create an original artwork called “Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time” for the plaza outside the campus chapel.…
This article examines the parallel strategies taken by Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) and contemporaries in the Eastern European Lithuanian Talmudic academies to develop modernizing interpretations of Jewish text, tradition, and law.…
Inside the APA: An Update on the Journal of the APAs by Amy Ferrer, John Heil, and Sally Hoffmann Most learned societies in the US have had journals for decades, but not the APA!…
The American Philosophical Association and Cambridge University Press are pleased to announce that the Journal of the American Philosophical Association has been selected as the winner of the 2017 PROSE Award for the Best New Journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences.…
Many will find it surprising to learn of the connection between C. S. Lewis and Anders Nygren. In his recent book on Lewis, Alister McGrath notes that Lewis “disconnected” himself from modern theological debates.…
Blog post based on an article in the Journal of Social Policy In his book What Money Can’t Buy, Michael Sandel argues compellingly that we should be paying more attention to the moral limits of markets.…
The first of four issues of the inaugural volume of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association is now available online.…
The 2014 Religious Studies Postgraduate Essay Prize was recently awarded to two co-winners: Daniel Kodaj, of the Central European University and Ryan W.…
The 2014 Religious Studies Postgraduate Essay Prize was recently awarded to two co-winners: Daniel Kodaj, of the Central European University and Ryan W.…
This interview was adapted from the Introduction to the Spring 2014 issue of Think: Philosophy for Everyone. Nigel Warburton is a freelance philosopher.…
The latest volume of the Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, Philosophy and Sport, is a collection of lectures from the Institute’s 2012-3 annual lecture series.…
We are pleased to announce the publication of the “Un-America” Special issue of of Journal of American Studies. As an introduction to the topic of Un-Americanism, Dr George Lewis, Guest Editor of the Special Issue examines the topic and asks what un-Americanism is and whether it is still a relevant term today.…
This blogpost is adapted from an article by Andrew T. Forcehimes, published in the Summer 2013 issue of Think: Philosophy for Everyone.…
This blogpost was adapted from guest Editor Martijn Blaauw’s introduction to a special issue of Episteme entitled ‘Privacy, Secrecy, and Epistemology.…
The American Philosophical Association (APA) and Cambridge University Press will launch the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, a new general philosophy journal, in 2015.…
You’ve got an idea for a paper, but aren’t sure about how to get your scholarship to the right audience. Melissa Good, Commissioning Editor for Cambridge Journals, completes her overview.…
Samuel Shearn is studying an MPhil in Modern Theology at the University of Oxford on an Ertegun Graduate Scholarship in the Humanities.…
You’ve got an idea for a paper, but aren’t sure about how to get your scholarship to the right audience. Melissa Good, Commissioning Editor for Cambridge Journals, gives an overview. …
Cambridge University Press Social Science Publisher John Haslam offers a few final notes on getting your first book ready for publication. …
In his second post, Cambridge University Press Social Science Publisher John Haslam offers a few more notes on getting your first book ready for publication. …
In the first of three posts, Cambridge University Press Social Science Publisher John Haslam offers a few notes on getting your first book ready for publication.…
In the Spring 2013 issue of Think, Editor Dr. Stephen Law explains why choosing to study philosophy is a wise career move.…
Dr Martin Lembke is the Associate Director of Studies at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, Sweden. He was recently awarded the 2012 Religious Studies Postgraduate Essay Prize for his article ‘Omnipotence and other possibilities’ (Religious Studies 48/4).…
We are delighted to announce that Cambridge Journals will publish Hegel Bulletin from 2013, on behalf of the Hegel Society of Great Britain.…
Some of the most important decisions that a journals publisher has to make involve selecting a new editorial team. This process can take many months, and can require careful analysis of both objective and subjective factors.…
In the latest issue of Think, Stephen Hetherington considers fallible knowledge while visiting the State Library of New South Wales.…
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