Salomo Friedlaender with his son Heinz Ludwig and his wife Marie Luise (Image has been AI-enhanced). Who isn’t eager to learn more about a philosopher who relished describing himself as...
“In the haste of daily journalism, a lot can happen that’s directed at the reader’s jaded senses.” – Hans Blumenberg, “The Iceberg of Fatalism” When the news broke that a...
Opponents of “woke capitalism” want to make “woke” a four-letter word. Yet, at least one philosopher, Stanley Cavell, who spent much of his career seeking out what counts as “American”...
...editor for The Philosophers’ Magazine. Kathryn J. Norlock Kathryn J. Norlock is professor of philosophy at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, and the Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics, as...
The tautology “It is what it is” made headlines when President Donald Trump uttered it during a recent interview with Axios’ Jonathan Swan. The abhorrent “it” in this context refers...
...we may distinguish three basic concerns: What can we know? What should we do? And for what may we hope? In “Kant for Kids,” Bruce Krajewski writes of the children’s...
Ask a philosopher to name a superhero. The response won’t be the famous brain in a vat. The likely response will be the centerpiece of a new play at The...
...Alexander Crist who assisted with a couple of helpful suggestions on smoothing rocky portions in the translation. From Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Hermeneutische Entwürfe (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2000): 227-233, translated by Bruce Krajewski....
