Philosophy

Under Philosophy we cover the European philosophical tradition from the pre-Socratics through the present — Plato and Aristotle, the Roman Stoics, medieval scholasticism, the early modern rationalists and empiricists, the Scottish and continental Enlightenments, the nineteenth-century German tradition, the analytic and phenomenological schools of the twentieth century, and the contemporary work still being done in European universities and outside them.

We treat philosophy as a continuing conversation rather than a sequence of finished doctrines. The questions Hume asked about causation are not finished questions; the answers Aquinas gave about the relation of reason and faith are not finished answers. We write about philosophers in a way that makes their arguments available to non-specialists, while taking the arguments seriously enough that specialists are not embarrassed to read us.