Philosophy Editorial Desk
The Ethics Behind Bernard Williams’s Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Read Bernard Williams’s Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy through integrity, internal reasons, conflict, and arguments against moral theory.
Where to Begin with Care Ethics Without Reducing It to “Being Caring”
A beginner’s reading route through care ethics, from Gilligan and Noddings to Held, Kittay, Tronto, dependency, institutions, and democracy.
Five Books on Animal Rights Philosophy That Disagree About What Animals Are Owed
These books on animal rights disagree about welfare, rights, interests, duties, and the status of nonhuman lives; the disagreement matters.
Where to Read Philippa Foot’s “The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect”
To read Philippa Foot on double effect, locate her abortion essay in the correct collection and separate the principle from…
Before Confessions: A Short Route into Augustine’s Intellectual World
A short route into Augustine’s Confessions through rhetoric, Manichaeism, Platonism, Scripture, conversion, memory, and time.
A Reading Order for Kierkegaard That Preserves the Pseudonyms
A Kierkegaard reading order should preserve the significance of pseudonyms instead of treating every book as the philosopher’s direct confession.
Before Phenomenology of Perception: What to Read First
Before Phenomenology of Perception, read the small set of arguments that makes Merleau-Ponty’s turn toward embodied perception intelligible.
Five Books for Understanding Gadamer’s Hermeneutics
Five books on Gadamer’s hermeneutics open different routes into tradition, interpretation, language, historical understanding, and the limits of method.
