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The Journal of Philosophy
Overview
The Journal of Philosophy is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal on philosophy, founded in 1904 at Columbia University. Its stated purpose is "To publish philosophical articles of current interest and encourage the interchange of ideas, especially the exploration of the borderline between philosophy and other disciplines." Subscriptions and online access are managed by the Philosophy Documentation Center.
The journal is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious journals in the field. The journal also publishes the Dewey, Woodbridge, and Nagel Lectures series held at Columbia University.
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There are human difficulties of an urgent, deep-seated kind which may be clarified by trained reflection, and whose solution may be forwarded by the careful development of hypotheses. When it is understood that philosophic thinking is caught up in the actual course of events, having the office of guiding them towards a prosperous issue, problems will abundantly present themselves. Philosophy will not solve these…
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
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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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It is suggestive that European philosophy originated (among the Athenians) under the direct pressure of educational questions. The earlier history of philosophy, developed by the Greeks in Asia Minor and Italy, so far as its range of topics is concerned, is mainly a chapter in the history of science rather than of philosophy as that word is understood to-day. It had nature for its subject, and speculated as to how…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
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Philosophers who discussed The Journal of Philosophy
- Arthur Danto
- Nelson Goodman
- Harry Frankfurt
- Karl Popper
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Edward N. Zalta
- E. J. Lowe (philosopher)
- Timothy Williamson
- Ruth Barcan Marcus
- Lewis White Beck
- Jerry Fodor
- C. I. Lewis
- Amartya Sen
- Rush Rhees
- Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
- Norman Malcolm
- Hilary Putnam
- Tara Smith (philosopher)
- Frances Kamm
- Cooper Harold Langford
- Alfred Henry Lloyd
- Achille Varzi (philosopher)
- Barry Stroud
- Norman Kemp Smith
Related ideas
- Arthur Danto
- Ned Block
- Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)
- Nelson Goodman
- Ernest Nagel
- John Rawls
- Harry Frankfurt
- Henri Bergson
- Philosophy
- Carl Gustav Hempel
- Bas van Fraassen
- Hans Reichenbach
- John Dewey
- Jürgen Habermas
- Gilbert Harman
- Peter van Inwagen
- Jaakko Hintikka
- Herbert Feigl
- George Santayana
- Thomas Nagel
- Christine Korsgaard
- A. J. Ayer
- Frank Cameron Jackson
- Richard Rorty
Place in the tradition
Part of Cultural relativism.
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