An orangutan attacks a woman and pulls her hair in an illustration for the murder scene in Edgar Allan Poe's short story 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue,' early 1840s. A victim lies on the floor, and a witness watches through a window.

“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe: Annotated

...the deliberateness and entire distinctness of the enunciation. Observing him in these moods, I often dwelt meditatively upon the old philosophy of the Bi-Part Soul, and amused myself with the...
Etching of early Italian physicist Laura Bassi profile

Laura Bassi, Enlightenment Scientist

...officially appointed her as a professor of natural philosophy, overlooking her biological sex in favor of her incredible talents as an academic. According to historian of science Alberto Elena, this...
Ganesa writing the Mahabharat, dictated by Vyasa. Page from an illustrated manuscript of the Mahabharata

The South Asian Human Rights Tradition

...any time by clicking on the provided link on any marketing message. Δ Singh writes that Mahatma Gandhi tried to synthesize the liberal and radical schools of philosophy, seeking ideas...
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Moti Mizrahi

Moti Mizrahi is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Florida Institute of Technology. His books include For and Against Scientism: Science, Methodology, and the Future of Philosophy(2022), The Relativity...
A newspaper vendor reads an edition of the sports colum of a newspaper printed in Russian July 31, 2001 in downtown Baku, Azerbaijan. In accordance with a decree issued by President Heydar Aliyev last June, Azerbaijan had to change all its Azeric writing, including books, newspapers, and street signs from the old Soviet-era Cyrillic to Latin script on August 1.

Alpha. Bravo. Cyrillic.

...early 1930s, the Soviets undertook a program of “indigenization,” rooted in an anti-imperialist philosophy that attempted to reverse the inter-ethnic tensions created by the previous empire’s “Russification.” Indigenization called for...

What Can Native American People in Prison Teach Us About Community and Art?

...Like any artist, Brian also has his own art philosophy: “Art has to be able to touch somebody, speak to them. It’s got to resonate, bring to them a special...
An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.

When Did Alchemy End?

...Stone only for the pleasure of resolving one of the most beautiful and most difficult problems in natural philosophy?” Weekly Newsletter Get your fix of JSTOR Daily’s best stories in...
Jean-Paul Sartre in front of a swirling background of red crabs

That Time Jean-Paul Sartre Got High on Mescaline

It was exactly the kind of thing a reckless twenty-something-year-old would do. But why would a rational, academically accomplished, thirty-year-old philosophy teacher do it? Wouldn’t someone who had won the...

From Imperialism to Postcolonialism: Key Concepts

...Are: Readings in Africana Philosophy, ed. by Fred Lee Hord, Mzee Lasana Okpara, and Jonathan Scott Lee, 2nd ed. (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016), 196–205. This excerpt from Aimé Césaire’s...
Portrait of Beatrice Hastings before a door by Amedeo Modigliani

Beatrice Hastings: The Forgotten Modernist

...worked with editor A. R. Orage, a long-time lover, on the cutting-edge weekly magazine The New Age, which “mixed politics, philosophy, and aesthetics with a socialist agenda inspired by the...