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20. Juni 2017 · A list of ten living philosophers who have ideas worth learning about, from linguistics and ethics to politics and culture. Each philosopher is introduced with a brief biography and a link to their Big Think videos, where you can learn more about their work and insights.
- Brian Barry
- Thomas Scanlon
- John Rawls
- Chiara Cordelli
- Martin O'Neill and Shepley Orr
- Maria Baghramian
A disproportionate number of the 3.4 million people worldwide who have died from COVID-19 were also the victims of inequality. After the pandemic, building a more just society, where equality is a precondition of freedom, must be our priority. Brian Barry is a good place to start. In Why Social Justice Matters(2005), he takes issue with the way equ...
COVID-19 has exposed the structural injustice underpinning our society, which manifests in galloping social and economic inequalities and relentless exploitation. During the pandemic the very rich have become even richerand more powerful, while the poor are living more precariously. We are running the risk of turning our democracies into plutocraci...
Rebuilding society on more just foundations will require a radical rethink of the role of the state in society. During the pandemic, people have looked to their governments for salvation, and COVID-19 is a reminder that a strong case can be made for the need to organise politics around public institutions. Never before have key institutions like an...
Over the past 40 years, we have seen important state functions ceaselessly being handed over to the private sphere, with devastating consequences. The time has come to reverse this trend. In liberal democracies around the world, the private sphere has encroached on the public sphere, undermining the foundations of democracy, so much so that, today,...
Unfair distributions of income, or dangerously unequal accumulations of wealth, can and ought to be rectified by taxation. Inequality is one of the reasons why COVID-19 has been so devastating in India and other parts of the world. Taxation remains one of the most effective tools to reverse this growing, social malignancy, and for engendering socia...
Throughout this pandemic, scientific experts were at the forefront of our battle against COVID-19, and the life-saving importance of research became evident to everyone. In the future, we will need more experts. We have also learned to distinguish between truth and post-truth, and how deadly the latter can be during times of crisis: just ask the hu...
Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the early 20th century with the increasing professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.
13. Nov. 2023 · Saul Kripke (b. 1940) Another multitasker of a philosopher, Saul Kripke is an American philosopher, currently emeritus professor at Princeton University, who has spread his wings across philosophy of language, logic, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, and epistemology. Listed in the top ten of the most influential philosophers of the past ...
An International Journal of Contemporary Philosophy. Peg Birmingham, Editor. Philosophy Today is an international peer-reviewed journal that reflects the current questions, topics, and debates of contemporary philosophy, with a particular focus on continental philosophy.
Modern philosophy is philosophy developed in the modern era and associated with modernity. It is not a specific doctrine or school (and thus should not be confused with Modernism ), although there are certain assumptions common to much of it, which helps to distinguish it from earlier philosophy.
Modern philosophy, in the history of Western philosophy, the philosophical speculation that occurred primarily in western Europe and North America from the 17th through the 19th century. The modern period is marked by the emergence of the broad schools of empiricism and rationalism and the epochal.
