The inaugural issue of Ergo is out. Here is the editorial of the inaugural issue of Confluence: Online Journal of World Philosophies. Helen De Cruz (Oxford): Where Philosophical Intuitions Come From. Alison Stone (Lancaster): The Politics of Clarity. Alexander Jackson (Boise State): How You Know You Are Not a Brain In a Vat. Justin Smith (Paris): Hegel, China, and the 19th-Century Europeanization of Philosophy. Chad Wellmon (Virginia): Nietzsche Transformed: How the Philologist Became Modernity’s Philosopher With a Hammer. Sandrine Berges (Bilkent): On the Outskirts of the Canon: The Myth of the Female Philosopher and What to Do About It. Mary Beard reviews Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero by James Romm and The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca by Emily Wilson. Massimo Pigliucci on how to be a Stoic. Unruly words: Diana Raffman is the deft philosophical flautist of vagueness. Wittgenstein, schoolteacher: Spencer Robins on what the philosopher learned from his time in elementary-school classrooms. Does philosophy matter? Walter Sinnott-Armstrong wonders. “Kant is a moron”: Police in Kaliningrad are searching for vandals who daubed graffiti on the side of a home once lived in by Immanuel Kant. The introduction to The New Anti-Kant by Sandra Lapointe and Clinton Tolley. You can download the Blackwell Companion to Aristotle (2009).
