Dan Zahavi (Copenhagen): Analytic and Continental Philosophy: From Duality through Plurality to (Some Kind of) Unity. Robert Frodeman and Adam Briggle on when philosophy lost its way. Jack Reynolds (Deakin): Philosophy and/or Politics? Two Trajectories of Philosophy after the Great War and Their Contamination. Spencer Case on political bias in philosophy and why it matters. “Against philosophy? You must love terrorism!”: Justin Weinberg on philosophy as anti-terrorism tool. What is it like to be a philosopher? Clifford Sosis interviews Elizabeth Barnes, professor of philosophy at the University of Virginia and editor of Philosophy Compass; and interviews Brian Leiter, professor of jurisprudence at the University of Chicago. Does philosophy have to be obscure? Marina Gerner investigates (and more).
From Aeon, when someone close to you dies, the very fabric of your life is ripped to shreds — is philosophy any consolation?; and is philosophy therapy, or is it simply a search for truth? Michael F. Patton on why philosophy should be funny. Valerie Strauss on why kids now more than ever need to learn philosophy — yes, philosophy. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has achieved what Wikipedia can only dream of.
