From Field to Fork and on to Philosophy (original) (raw)

Second Thoughts. First Introductions to Philosophy

Open Press TiU, 2021

This handbook is an open educational and open-ended resource for whomever is interested in philosophical thinking. Each of the chapters is open in the sense of freely available and accessible to everyone. You may be a student who wants to get some background on a specific philosophical sub-discipline. You may be a teacher who wants to assign introductory reading for students. You may be a layperson interested in reading an overview of philosophical thinking, written in a clear and accessible way. Each of you: feel free to browse, download, print and use the collection as you see fit. We believe that open access is the future and that academic philosophy as presented in this volume is of potential worth to many of you out there. In this open-ended handbook you find two kinds of chapters. First, there are chapters that provide a broad introduction into a specific philosophical sub-discipline, such as political philosophy, epistemology or metaphysics. As this collection covers most of the sub-disciplines currently taught at Western philosophy departments, you can legitimately claim that you have been introduced to Western ‘philosophy’ as a whole, understood rather canonically, after having read the entire handbook. Second, there are chapters that introduce slightly more specific topics or philosophical approaches. You will always be able to know the focus of each chapter by looking at its subtitle. The open-ended nature of this handbook, means that new chapters will be added in the future. We hope that philosophy will change and grow with time to become more diverse and inclusive and that this handbook will do so as well. We think of philosophy and its evolution as an organic process, as a tree that branches out in many different directions, adding new directions as it goes along. In this handbook, we organize the wide variety of topics that philosophers discuss into four main branches, which represent important subject areas that philosophers have covered.First, there is ‘thinking about societies’, which includes chapters that cover philosophical approaches to matters of obvious societal relevance. How should we organize our societies? How should we treat others? What exactly are cultures and what role do they play in a globalized world? This branch covers philosophical discussions, theories and views on what binds and divides us as societies and communities.Second, there is ‘thinking about humans’, which includes chapters that zoom in on people, the members that make up those societies. Is there something like human nature and what does that look like? How do human minds and bodies relate to each other? Are we free or not? This branch covers what one could broadly call ‘philosophical anthropology’: philosophical discussions, theories and views on what it means to be human.Third, there is ‘thinking about thinking’, which include chapters that focus on the ways in which humans can relate to the outside world. How can we come to know things about that world? What is truth exactly? What are the values and limits of scientific understanding? How do we reason and argue and how do we do so properly? This branch covers philosophical discussions, theories and views on how humans come to believe things about themselves and the worlds they live in. Fourth, there is ‘thinking about reality’, which includes chapters that investigate those worlds in more direct ways. Do things have an essence? What do we mean when we say that some things exist and others do not? How can language help us access the reality out there? This branch covers philosophical discussions, theories and views on the world we, as humans, find ourselves in. If you like what is on offer in this handbook, you can let us know on the website https://www.openpresstiu.org/ and register for updates, for example when new chapters are added. Consider each chapter as a first and stand-alone introduction to the exciting and thought-provoking world of a specific branch of philosophy. The same will be true of future chapters. Like the chapters already included, these future chapters will be accessible for readers without any specific prior knowledge. All you need is curiosity, an open mind and a willingness to think twice.

Taking Philosophy Forward

Los Angeles Review of Books, 2018

A review of Bryan Van Norden, Taking Back Philosophy (Columbia 2017)

New Horizons in Philosophy and Sociology

What is our responsibility as scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the face of global issues threatening humanity today? This book provides a platform for an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural dialogue among philosophers and sociologists on the most pressing global issues facing humanity today. Books are selected for the "Highlight" catalog every month and sent to the whole world. https://www.peterlang.com/fileasset/New%20Publications%20Catalogues%202018/Monthly%20Catalogue%20May%202018%20reduced.pdf Page 21. Editores Hülya Yaldir / Guncel Onkal. Ed. Peter Lang. 2018. Turquía.

Special Issue: Social Philosophy - Perspectives Volume 9 Winter 2021

Perspectives, 2021

Editor in chief: Dr Kelly Agra, additional co-editor: DrJonathan Wren Journal Description https://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/research/perspectives/ Perspectives: UCD Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy is an annual blind peer-reviewed journal of philosophy edited and published by postgraduate students of the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Ireland. Perspectives features articles, symposium and conference papers, book reviews, and interviews by postgraduate students and recent graduates on a broad range of topics and approaches in philosophy and its related disciplines. The journal is published open-access online, with printed copies available at a small cost. Perspectives reflects diverse interests and trends at the cutting edge of contemporary philosophy. The journal publishes works from different philosophical traditions, including analytic and continental, and maintains a pluralist ethos. The journal offers a platform for those in the early stages of research in academic philosophy, from advanced Masters and PhD students to recent graduates, to gain experience of the process of academic publication of the highest standard. Funding Acknowledgment This publication has received funding from the Head of School of Philosophy Support Account R18287 held by Professor Maria Baghramian. ISSN: 2009-1842