Welcome to 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology, an ever-growing set of original 1000-word essays on philosophical topics. We publish new essays frequently, so check back for updates. Please ‘follow’ and subscribe to receive email notifications of new essays.
Newest Essays
Possibility and Necessity: An Introduction to Modality by Andre Leo Rusavuk
Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am” by Charles Miceli
Expertise by Jamie Carlin Watson
Evolution and Ethics by Michael Klenk
Social Contract Theory by David Antonini
Introduction to the Probability Calculus and Interpretations of Probability by Thomas Metcalf
Attributes of God by Bailie Peterson
Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought by David Antonini
Hope by Michael Milona & Katie Stockdale
Descartes’ Meditations 1-3 and Descartes’ Meditations 4-6 by Marc Bobro
John Rawls’ ‘A Theory of Justice’ by Ben Davies
Responding to Morally Flawed Historical Philosophers and Philosophies by Victor Fabian Abundez-Guerra and Nathan Nobis
Philosophical Inquiry in Childhood by Jana Mohr Lone
How to Establish Social Order? Three Early Chinese Answers by Henrique Schneider
The Ontology of Race by Abiral Chitrakar Phnuyal
Mary Astell’s “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies” (1694) by Simone Webb
Dharma in Abhidharma Buddhism by Nicholaos Jones
Time Travel by Taylor W. Cyr
The Epistemology of Disagreement by Jonathan Matheson
Mengzi’s Moral Psychology, Part 1: The Four Moral Sprouts and Mengzi’s Moral Psychology, Part 2: The Cultivation Analogy by John Ramsey
Essay Categories
- Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
- Buddhist Philosophy
- Chinese Philosophy
- Ethics
- Epistemology
- Historical Philosophy
- Logic and Reasoning
- Metaphilosophy
- Metaphysics
- Phenomenology and Existentialism
- Philosophy of Education
- Philosophy of Mind and Language
- Philosophy of Race
- Philosophy of Religion
- Philosophy of Science
- Philosophy of Sex and Gender
- Social and Political Philosophy
* New categories are added as the project expands.
