Concept
Philosophy (journal)
Overview
Philosophy is the scholarly journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. It is designed to be intelligible to the non-specialist reader and has been in continuous publication since 1926. The journal is triple-blind reviewed and published by Cambridge University Press, and is currently edited by Maria Alvarez and Bill Brewer.
The journal was established in 1926 "to build bridges between specialist philosophers and a wider educated public".
Each issue contains a "New Books" section and an editorial on a topic of philosophical or public interest.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
In the original texts
Passages from public-domain books where Philosophy (journal) is discussed.
But Philosophy possesses no opinions, for there is no such thing as philosophical opinions. When we hear a man speaking of philosophical opinions, even though he be an historian of philosophy itself, we detect at once this want of fundamental education. Philosophy is the objective science of truth, it is science of necessity, conceiving knowledge, and neither opinion nor the spinning out of opinions.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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Similarly, the study of the human mind, which was a part of philosophy, has now been separated from philosophy and has become the science of psychology. Thus, to a great extent, the uncertainty of philosophy is more apparent than real: those questions which are already capable of definite answers are placed in the sciences, while those only to which, at present, no definite answer can be given, remain to form the…
Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
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As we might expect, then, philosophy has generally been defined in ways which imply a certain totality, generality, and ultimateness of both subject matter and method. With respect to subject matter, philosophy is an attempt to _comprehend_--that is, to gather together the varied details of the world and of life into a single inclusive whole, which shall either be a unity, or, as in the dualistic systems, shall…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
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But this is the business of science rather than of philosophy. A man does not necessarily become a better philosopher through knowing more scientific facts; it is principles and methods and general conceptions that he should learn from science if philosophy is what interests him. The philosopher’s work is, so to speak, at the second remove from crude fact.
Bertrand Russell, Philosophy
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But in the main philosophy has set up much more ambitious pretensions. To say frankly that philosophy can proffer nothing but hypotheses, and that these hypotheses are of value only as they render men's minds more sensitive to life about them, would seem like a negation of philosophy itself.
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
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Philosophers who discussed Philosophy (journal)
- Roger Scruton
- Peter Winch
- Anthony Quinton
- J. L. Mackie
- Norman Malcolm
- James Franklin (philosopher)
- Barry Stroud
- Morris Lazerowitz
- Alfred Edward Taylor
- Susan Stebbing
- Terence Penelhum
- R. F. Holland
Related ideas
Place in the tradition
Part of Mind–body dualism.