Category Archives: Philosophy

Alan Gewirth (1912-2004) ranks among the American moral philosophers who pressed hardest against the skepticism of his century. For roughly four decades he pursued a single ambition: to show that morality, and with it human rights, follows from reason alone. … Continue reading →

Walter Jackson Ong (1912-2003) was an original Catholic intellectual of the twentieth century, and his career joined vocations that most scholars keep apart. He was a Jesuit priest, a literary historian, a philosopher of communication, and a founder of the … Continue reading →

Bruno Latour (1947–2022) was an influential and divisive figure in the social theory of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Trained as a philosopher, drawn toward anthropology in method, and disposed toward the study of institutions by temperament, he … Continue reading →

Katrina Forrester (b. 1986) writes and teaches as a political theorist and intellectual historian whose scholarship has reshaped how readers understand modern liberalism, the history of political thought, and the relation between political theory and social change. She belongs to … Continue reading →

Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart (1907-1992) stands as the central figure of analytical jurisprudence in the English-speaking world after the Second World War. He took a field that sat at the edge of legal scholarship and moved it to the center … Continue reading →

Judith Butler (b. 1956) is an influential philosopher and social theorist whose work has reshaped how scholars and ordinary readers alike speak about gender, sexuality, identity, ethics, political power, violence, and democracy. She built her early reputation on the theory … Continue reading →

Martha Craven Nussbaum (b. May 6, 1947) is America’s most decorated philosopher. Her work reaches across ancient Greek ethics, the theory of emotions, feminism, constitutional law, development economics, education, and animal welfare, and through all of it she holds to … Continue reading →

Michael Huemer (b. December 27, 1969) is an American philosopher who has taught at the University of Colorado Boulder since 1998. His writing crosses epistemology, ethics, metaethics, political philosophy, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mathematics. He has authored or co-authored … Continue reading →

An Irish-born thinker whose career has crossed Ireland, Britain, Australia, and the United States, Philip Noel Pettit (b. 1945) revived the republican tradition in political theory and redefined political freedom as non-domination rather than mere non-interference. His writing ranges across … Continue reading →