The Monist
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The Monist: An International Quarterly Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry is an American academic journal
in the field of philosophy
. It was founded in October 1890 by Edward C. Hegeler
, making it one of the longest-established journals in philosophy. The Monist helped professionalize philosophy as an academic discipline in the United States, and over the years it has published the work of major thinkers such as Lewis White Beck
, John Dewey
, Gottlob Frege
, Hans-Georg Gadamer
, Sidney Hook
, C. I. Lewis
, Ernst Mach
, Charles Sanders Peirce, Hilary Putnam
, Willard Van Orman Quine
, Bertrand Russell
, and Gregory Vlastos
.
The journal's editors have included Paul Carus
, from 1890 to 1919, Mary Hegeler Carus from 1919 to 1936, Eugene Freeman from 1962 to 1983, John Hospers from 1983 to 1991, and Barry Smith
from 1991 to the present.
After ceasing publication in 1936, The Monist resumed publication in 1962 and has been continually published since then on a quarterly basis. Each issue is devoted to papers on a single, pre-announced topic. All issues (1890-present) are available online from the Philosophy Documentation Center
.
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
in the field of philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
. It was founded in October 1890 by Edward C. Hegeler
Edward C. Hegeler
Edward C. Hegeler was a United States zinc manufacturer and publisher.-Biography:...
, making it one of the longest-established journals in philosophy. The Monist helped professionalize philosophy as an academic discipline in the United States, and over the years it has published the work of major thinkers such as Lewis White Beck
Lewis White Beck
Lewis White Beck was an American philosopher and scholar of German philosophy. Beck was Burbank Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at the University of Rochester and served as the Philosophy Department chair there from 1949 to 1966...
, John Dewey
John Dewey
John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology...
, Gottlob Frege
Gottlob Frege
Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege was a German mathematician, logician and philosopher. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern logic, and made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics. He is generally considered to be the father of analytic philosophy, for his writings on...
, Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method .-Life:...
, Sidney Hook
Sidney Hook
Sidney Hook was an American pragmatic philosopher known for his contributions to public debates.A student of John Dewey, Hook continued to examine the philosophy of history, of education, politics, and of ethics. After embracing Marxism in his youth, Hook was known for his criticisms of...
, C. I. Lewis
Clarence Irving Lewis
Clarence Irving Lewis , usually cited as C. I. Lewis, was an American academic philosopher and the founder of conceptual pragmatism. First a noted logician, he later branched into epistemology, and during the last 20 years of his life, he wrote much on ethics.-Early years:Lewis was born in...
, Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher, noted for his contributions to physics such as the Mach number and the study of shock waves...
, Charles Sanders Peirce, Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam
Hilary Whitehall Putnam is an American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist, who has been a central figure in analytic philosophy since the 1960s, especially in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science...
, Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition...
, Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
, and Gregory Vlastos
Gregory Vlastos
Gregory Vlastos was a scholar of ancient philosophy, and author of several works on Plato and Socrates. He was also a Christian and has written on Christian faith as well.-Life and works:...
.
The journal's editors have included Paul Carus
Paul Carus
Paul Carus, Ph.D. was a German-American author, editor, a student of comparative religion, and professor of philosophy.-Life and education:...
, from 1890 to 1919, Mary Hegeler Carus from 1919 to 1936, Eugene Freeman from 1962 to 1983, John Hospers from 1983 to 1991, and Barry Smith
Barry Smith (ontologist)
Barry Smith is a Julian Park Distinguished Professor of Philosophy in the University at Buffalo and Research Scientist in the New York State . From 2002 to 2006 he was Director of the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science in Leipzig and Saarbrücken, GermaUny...
from 1991 to the present.
After ceasing publication in 1936, The Monist resumed publication in 1962 and has been continually published since then on a quarterly basis. Each issue is devoted to papers on a single, pre-announced topic. All issues (1890-present) are available online from the Philosophy Documentation Center
Philosophy Documentation Center
The Philosophy Documentation Center is a non-profit publisher and resource center dedicated to providing affordable access to a wide range of materials in applied ethics, classics, philosophy, religious studies, and related disciplines...
.