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.
Newest Essays
Reparations for Historic Injustice by Joseph Frigault
Camus on the Absurd: The Myth of Sisyphus by Erik Van Aken
Vagueness by Darren Hibbs
Euthanasia, or Mercy Killing by Nathan Nobis
Ignorance and Blame by Daniel Miller
Theories of Punishment by Travis Joseph Rodgers
Manipulation and Moral Responsibility by Taylor W. Cyr
Plato’s Crito: When Should We Break the Law? by Spencer Case
Free Will and Free Choice (updated) by Jonah Nagashima
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
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
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.
