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 over 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.
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New: in response to the COVID crisis, 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.
Recent Essays
Philosophy by Thomas Metcalf
Is Death Bad? Epicurus and Lucretius on the Fear of Death by Frederik Kaufman
John Stuart Mill on The Good Life: Higher-Quality Pleasures by Dale E. Miller
Feminism Part 3: The Dominance Approach by Chelsea Haramia
Epistemology, or Theory of Knowledge by Thomas Metcalf
al-Ghazālī’s Dream Argument by John Ramsey
Epistemic Injustice by Huzeyfe Demirtas
Ethics and the Expected Consequences of Voting by Thomas Metcalf
Removing Confederate Monuments by Travis Timmerman
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
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
The Death Penalty by Benjamin S. Yost
Reparations for Historic Injustice by Joseph Frigault
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 and Wu-Wei: Acting without Desire 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
- Islamic 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.
