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Journal of Speculative Philosophy

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ISSN 0891-625X: Quarterly Publication

"[T]his journal is unique in contemporary philosophy. It provides a place where ideas that follow no one school or doctrine can appear on the fundamental and traditional questions of philosophy. In my view it keeps alive what real philosophy is all about."

—Donald Phillip Verene, Emory University

"[T]he premier place for systematic philosophic essays in the United States."

—Robert C. Neville, Boston University

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy publishes systematic and interpretive essays about basic philosophical questions. Scholars examine the constructive interaction between Continental and American philosophy, as well as novel developments in the ideas and theories of past philosophers that have relevance for contemporary thinkers. The journal also features discussions of art, religion, and literature that are not strictly or narrowly philosophical. Book reviews are included in each issue.


About the Editors:

John J. Stuhr
, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of American Studies at Vanderbilt University, was educated at Carleton College and Vanderbilt University. He has taught previously at Penn State University (where he was Head of the Department of Philosophy), the University of Oregon (where he was Director of the Oregon Humanities Center), and Whitman College (where he was Chair of the Division of Arts and Humanities), and he held fellowships in Australia, France, Germany, and Russia. His publications include "Pragmatism, Postmodernism, and the Future of Philosophy," "Genealogical Pragmatism," "John Dewey, "Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy," and "Philosophy and the Reconstruction of Culture." He is the founding editor of the "American Philosophy" book series at Indiana University Press, and the founding co-editor (with Charles E. Scott) of the "American and European Philosophy Series" published by Penn State University Press.

Vincent Colapietro is a Professor of Philosophy who specializes in classical American philosophy and contemporary Euorpean thought as well as semiotics, hermeneutics, and psychoanalysis. He is a committed pluralist who is rooted in the pragmatic tradition but appreciative of other movements and perspectives, both classical and modern.

Book Review Editor:

Michael Sullivan
Emory University