Idealistic Studies is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 founded in 1971 to discuss themes and topics related to philosophical idealism. While it initially focused on American Personalism

Personalism

Personalism is a philosophical school of thought searching to describe the uniqueness of a human person in the world of nature, specifically in relation to animals...

 and post-Kant

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg , researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment....

ian Idealism

Idealism

In philosophy, idealism is the family of views which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial. Epistemologically, idealism manifests as a skepticism about the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing...

, the journal's mission has broadened to include other topics, including historically earlier expressions as well as developments of the late 19th to mid-20th century. The journal has become a venue for a number of philosophical movements that share Idealism in their genealogies, including Phenomenology, Neo-Kantianism

Neo-Kantianism

Neo-Kantianism refers broadly to a revived type of philosophy along the lines of that laid down by Immanuel Kant in the 18th century, or more specifically by Schopenhauer's criticism of the Kantian philosophy in his work The World as Will and Representation , as well as by other post-Kantian...

, Historicism

Historicism

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, Hermeneutics, Life Philosophy, Existentialism

Existentialism

Existentialism is a term applied to a school of 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual...

, and Pragmatism

Pragmatism

Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition centered on the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent practice...

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The journal's founding editor was Robert N. Beck. The current editor is Gary E. Overvold.

Notable contributors

• Norman E. Bowie
  Norman E. Bowie
  Norman E. Bowie is a professor of strategic management and of philosophy. He teaches in both of those departments at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota....
  
  
• Peter Caws
  Peter Caws
  Peter J. Caws is a British American philosopher and administrator, and University Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Human Sciences at the George Washington University.- Biography :...
  
  
• A. C. Ewing
  A. C. Ewing
  Alfred Cyril Ewing was a British philosopher and a sympathetic critic of Idealism.Ewing studied at Oxford, where he gained the John Locke Lectureship and the Green Prize in Moral Philosophy...
  
  
• Dieter Henrich
  Dieter Henrich
  Dieter Henrich is a German philosopher. A contemporary thinker in the tradition of German Idealism, Henrich is particularly known for the influence of Kant, Hegel and Fichte in his work.-Life:...
  
  
• Erazim Kohák
  Erazim Kohák
  Erazim Kohák is a Czech philosopher and writer. His early education was in Prague. After communists took over Czechoslovakia in 1948, his family escaped to the United States....
  
  
• Joseph Margolis
  Joseph Margolis
  Joseph Zalman Margolis is an American philosopher. A radical historicist, he has published many books critical of the central assumptions of Western philosophy, and has elaborated a robust form of relativism....
  
  
• Nicholas Rescher
  Nicholas Rescher
  Nicholas Rescher is an American philosopher at the University of Pittsburgh. In a productive research career extending over six decades, Rescher has established himself as a systematic philosopher of the old style and author of a system of pragmatic idealism which weaves together threads of...