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1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology

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Category: Metaphilosophy

Philosophical Counseling: Using Philosophy to Address Life’s Challenges

August 21, 2025October 20, 2025 ~ 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology ~ 1 Comment

This essay describes a leading approach to philosophical counseling, known as Logic-Based Therapy, that has been developed and used since the 1980s.

Philosophy as a Way of Life

October 21, 2023February 1, 2026 ~ 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology ~ 3 Comments

This essay introduces the Philosophy as a Way of Life approach to philosophy and offers examples of what it can look like to live philosophically in the present day.

What is Philosophy?

October 10, 2020October 30, 2025 ~ 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology ~ 6 Comments

What is philosophy? The question is itself a philosophical question. This essay surveys some answers. #philosophy #whatisphilosophy #definingphilosophy

Responding to Morally Flawed Historical Philosophers and Philosophies

July 17, 2018August 15, 2025 ~ 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology ~ 2 Comments

How should we respond to brilliant-but-flawed philosophers from the past? Here we explore the issues, asking questions and offering few answers. Any insights gained here might be applicable to contemporary imperfect philosophers, scholars in other fields, and people in general.

Philosophy and Its Contrast with Science: Comparing Philosophical and Scientific Understanding

February 13, 2018August 15, 2025 ~ 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology ~ 11 Comments

Philosophy and science are both ways of learning about ourselves and the world. Here we’ll review the two main perspectives on the question of whether and to what degree science and philosophy overlap in their methods and their sources of knowledge.

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