Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 08 – 08 Academic disciplines develop specialized concepts, methods, and standards of evidence because they study different objects and ask different questions. Such specialization is necessary, but it may also encourage the belief that an observation originating outside a discipline cannot be relevant until it has already been translatedContinue reading “Excursus 135 – On Interdisciplinary Brainstorming and the Responsibility to Listen”
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Excursus 098 – On an Additional Criterion for Evaluating Philosophers
Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 07 – 20 Philosophers are commonly evaluated according to such criteria as originality, logical consistency, conceptual clarity, influence, and historical significance. These are all important measures of philosophical achievement. Yet they do not exhaust the criteria by which philosophical work may be assessed. Philosophy has never developed independently ofContinue reading “Excursus 098 – On an Additional Criterion for Evaluating Philosophers”
