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Section 1: What are Thought Experiments For? Thomas Kuhn famously asked how it was possible for thought experiments to lead to new scientific knowledge in the absence of new data. In philosophy, research on thought experiments has mainly followed the trajectory established by Kuhn, focusing on their role in the sciences. Kuhn’s asks what thought experiments […]
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Particularly in Western countries, where the so-called secularization supposedly hit harder than in other parts of the world, many people do not really engage with Christian liturgy. But that does not mean that they do not have opinions about it, to the contrary. The statements made are mostly influenced by commonly shared patterns of thought, […]
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On our book’s cover stands a small church. Coloured in a blue that suggests the haze of a summer’s day, it is set against a yellow landscape dotted with vines. We chose this image partly for its aesthetic appeal, and partly because it was painted in the 1950s by Kurt Franke, the grandfather of one […]
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Slavery was an inextricable part of Christianity from its origins. Within the earliest gatherings of Jesus-followers in the eastern Mediterranean, enslaved persons and enslavers read sacred texts and participated in communal meals. Enslaved persons themselves, as recent research has shown, were responsible for the physical composition of New Testament literature. Slavery, however, did not only […]
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In a world afflicted by an absence of trust in authority and institutions of virtually all kinds, democracy is almost everywhere in retreat and the unfreedom of authoritarianism is on the rise. At the same time, humanity is falling farther behind in its endeavors to achieve ambitious global goals for human development through sustainable economic, […]
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When philosophers write about and explain actions they focus almost exclusively on so-called “intentional actions.” These are actions that are done for reasons, selected in the light of one’s beliefs and desires. But this narrow focus misses out vast swathes of human action, including habitual, speeded, skilled, and directly emotion-caused actions. Why? In part, it […]
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Karl Marx (1818–1883) began as a philosopher. But his subsequent relationship to philosophy, as his career developed, has been a subject of dispute. In my book, Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy, I offer a new interpretation of this relationship which fundamentally recasts Marx’s contribution to philosophy. It is clear enough that Marx was […]
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The “art world” comprises a complex, diverse set of people and institutions – an international, interdependent complex of artists, collectors, museum professionals, dealers, and auctioneers, with a large supporting cast of art historians, archaeologists, critics, experts, bronze founders, fine art printers, suppliers of artists’ materials, city planning commissions, corporate sponsors, governmental sources of funding, tax […]
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