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2014 will be breakout year for Continental Philosophy’s return to metaphysics

January 5, 2014

As an outsider I've been fascinated by watching continental philosophers shake off many of the neo-Kantian aspects of phenomenology in the same way that analytic philosophers earlier shook off many of the (sometimes identical!) neo-Kantian aspects of logical positivism. What's fascinated me most these past few years is the way in which lessons, themes, and…
How not to to engage with other humanists; Nathan Brown and the continental/continental divide

December 15, 2013

When I was an undergraduate at the University of Texas in the late 80s there was the huge fad of philosophers making fun of professors in other departments who had appropriated philosophical thinking for their own projects. Honestly, it's pretty easy work for people who spend their lives just studying philosophy to beat up on…