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Continental entry

This site is written from an analytic vantage point, so treat this as a bridge rather than a substitute for reading Hegel, Heidegger, or Foucault directly. It gathers the articles that engage the questions the continental tradition made central: being as a question rather than an inventory, the first-person structure of experience, ideology and power, and the situated body. Each one names the primary texts to go to next.

  1. What 'Exists' MeansOntology · Beginner

    The difference between existing, being real, and merely being talked about

    8 min

  2. Candidate ExistentsOntology · Beginner

    Ordinary things, happenings, qualities, and numbers, and why the last two are contested

    10 min

  3. Categories of BeingOntology · IntermediatePlanned

    Whether being divides into kinds, or applies in one single sense to everything there is

    14 min

  4. Ontological Categories in Aristotle and HusserlOntology · IntermediatePlanned

    Substance and accident in the Categories, and Husserl's dependence relations between regions

    19 min

  5. Introspection and Its LimitsPhilosophy of Mind · Beginner

    How good your access to your own mind is, once the traditional claims are separated and tested

    10 min

  6. Extended and Embodied MindPhilosophy of Mind · AdvancedPlanned

    Otto's notebook, the parity principle, and the bloat objection that follows from taking it seriously

    21 min

  7. The Unity of ConsciousnessPhilosophy of Mind · AdvancedPlanned

    Why experiences at a time come as one field, and what split-brain patients do to that claim

    21 min

  8. Marx on Alienation, Class, and IdeologyPolitical Philosophy · IntermediatePlanned

    Labour that confronts the worker as alien, class defined by relation to productive resources, and beliefs that serve an existing order

    16 min

  9. Theories of ExploitationPolitical Philosophy · AdvancedPlanned

    Rival accounts built on surplus extraction, unfair terms of exchange, and taking advantage of vulnerability

    22 min

  10. Critical Race Theory and Feminist Political PhilosophyPolitical Philosophy · AdvancedPlanned

    Structural accounts of injustice, the racial contract as a rereading of contract theory, and the challenge to the public and private divide

    24 min

  11. Care EthicsEthics · IntermediatePlanned

    Why an ethics built on relationship and dependence rejects the impartial standpoint

    13 min

  12. Epistemic InjusticeEpistemology · Intermediate

    The wrongs done to someone specifically as a giver or a subject of knowledge

    17 min

  13. Transformative ExperienceEpistemology · AdvancedPlanned

    Choices whose outcomes you cannot assess until after you have made them, and what that does to expected utility

    19 min

  14. Grounding and Metaphysical ExplanationMetaphysics · AdvancedPlanned

    The in virtue of relation, its logical behaviour, and why supervenience was never going to do this job

    22 min

  15. Religious LanguageTheism · Advanced

    Whether talk about God says anything at all: denial of positive description, analogical predication, and the verificationist charge of meaninglessness

    22 min