Welcome to 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology, an ever-growing set of original 1000-word essays on philosophical questions, figures, and arguments. We have nearly 100 original essays on a wide range of philosophical issues, and we publish new essays frequently. Please check back for updates and ‘follow’ or subscribe to receive email notifications of new essays.
New! A “Teaching Units” page of links to select sets of essays has been developed to help create course modules on common topics in philosophy and ethics courses. We hope this is especially helpful for instructors transitioning to online learning.
Newest Essays
Ethical Egoism by Nathan Nobis
Dutch Book Arguments by Daniel Peterson
Is Immortality Desirable? by Felipe Pereira
Sexual Orientation, Sex, and Gender by Raja Halwani
Hell and Universalism by A.G. Holdier
The Knowledge Argument Against Physicalism by Tufan Kıymaz
Defining Capitalism and Socialism and Arguments for Capitalism and Socialism by Thomas Metcalf
Aristotle’s Defense of Slavery by Dan Lowe
The African Ethic of Ubuntu by Thaddeus Metz
Speciesism (update) by Dan Lowe
Mill’s Proof of the Principle of Utility by Dale E. Miller
The Death Penalty by Benjamin S. Yost
The Sleeping Beauty Problem by Daniel Peterson
Wu-Wei: Acting without Desire by Henrique Schneider
Reparations for Historic Injustice by Joseph Frigault
Camus on the Absurd: The Myth of Sisyphus by Erik Van Aken
Ignorance and Blame by Daniel Miller
Theories of Punishment by Travis Joseph Rodgers
Expertise by Jamie Carlin Watson
Attributes of God by Bailie Peterson
Hope by Michael Milona & Katie Stockdale
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
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
- African Philosophy
- 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.
