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All issues of your favorite philosophical student journal

Need your philosophical text fix but ran out of articles in the ESJP's current issue? No problem! Check out the articles in some of our past editions. We have 24 published issues, and three special editions written by the students of the MA Philosophy Now.

Edition #25 | March 2025

  • Art in Times of the Student Intifada, or How on Earth am I Supposed to Study Right Now?, by Nena M. Ackerl

  • A Fatal Necessity: Absent Presence and Assimilation as Obliteration, by Pepijn Op de Beek

  • World to Waste: The Toxic Legacy of Consumerism and Technoscience, by Ties van Daal.

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Edition #24 | July 2024

  • On a Downward Spiral, by Sonia Shvets

  • Accountability: from Structure to Individual (and back), by Rutger Maaskant

  • Humorloos en Hyperreëel Europa: de vraag of dat erg is, by Coen ten Ham

  • The Friendliest Prison: Social Media, by Umut Derman Tacyldiz

  • Affects, Aesthetics, and Activism: An Interview with Dr. Christoph Brunner, by Atal Katawazi and Georgina Aránzazu Dijkstra

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Special Issue III - Ecology in Liminal Times | 2023

  • Can a Crisis be Singular?, by Yogi Hale Hendlin & Daniel Kamp

  • General Ecological (Ill-)Health in the Ex-Organological Technosphere, by Johan May

  • The Self in the Smart Home: An Ecological Analysis of The Digital Epoch, by Anna Zoë Moritz

  • Perennially Liminal: Re-Enchanting the Anthropocene Through an Ecology of Sapiential and Spiritual Practices, by Levi van den Bogaard

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Edition #23 | April 2023

  • Why Surfers Should Not Matter: Universal Basic Income, Unconditionality, and Democratic Equality, by Gergana Boncheva

  • Evaluating Alexandrova on Nagel: Should Scientists Eliminate Appraisal Judgements in order to Establish Value-free Science?, by David Holroyd

  • De Exploitatie van Ons Brein: De Gevolgen van het Gebrek aan Lichamelijkheid, Situationaliteit en Contextualiteit in het Neurowetenschappelijke Perspectief, by Noortje Hermans

  • Towards a Spinozist Conception of Hope, by Zander Michaël Prinsloo

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Edition #22 | September 2022

  • A Phenomenologist, a Psychologist, and a Rich Man Walk into a Burrow…, by Max Omlo

  • Racism and Philosophy: A Structural or Accidental Relationship?, by Giovanni Prins

  • On the Impossibility of Moral Development in John Rawls’s Theory of Justice, by Jeroen de Vries

  • Beyond Stalinism: How Kautsky Inspired a Modern Communist Movement in the Netherlands, by Senad Delić

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Special Issue II - Life Problems: Ambivalence, Valorization, Validation | 2022

  • On Naked Life and Its Form: Redefining the Fracture Between ZoÄ“ and Bios, by Sonia Shvets

  • Generating Two Modes of Life: A Biopolitical Reading of Asylum Seekers and Refugees, by Giovanni Prins

  • Hiding, Mutating, Spreading, by Mark van Loon

  • Signs of Life: Closing the Chasm Between Cultural and Micro-Biological Life, by Constantijn-Alexander Kusters

  • Defining the Moment of Death, by Charles Smoot

  • Illness as Epoché, by Havi Carel

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Edition #21 | January 2022

  • A Thousand Blockchains: Capitalism and Tokenmania, by Sebastian Cincelli

  • Psychology and Phenomenology of Religious Experiences: Investigations Into Religious Experiences and Arguments Against Epistemological Reductionism, by Nathalie Maria Kirch

  • Hoe Emoties Ons Bewegen: Lichamelijke Intentionaliteit en het Effect van Defect Affect in William James’ Emotietheorie, by Arwen Vonck

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Special Issue I - Recognition and Repitition: On Narrating Identities | 2021

  • The Metaethics of Political Recognition, by Jip Maat

  • Does Recognition Entail Epistemic Injustice?, by Rodney Ramdas

  • The Discordant Narrative: An Analysis of the ‘Canon of the Netherlands’, by Mala Dengkeng

  • Being Recognizable: From a Human to a Posthuman Relational Ethics, by Victoria Fareld

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Edition #20 | June 2021

  • Controlling Political Dynasties in the Philippines: A Breach or a Promotion of Freedom?, by Erica Yu

  • Nietzsches rijm voor een Vrolijke Wetenschap, by Kas Molenaar

  • Experimenting with name meaning, by Erik Huijsman

  • "One day I shall be Queen?" Thinking about Rational Choices in the face of Epistemic Transformations, by Chiara Stenico

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Edition #19 | January 2020

  • How we ought to choose when uncertainty aversion conflicts with avoiding inequality: Amending egalitarianism under severe uncertainty, by Ina Jantgen

  • Why Tell Them How: Rethinking Autonomy and Informed Consent in Healthcare, by Ahmed AlJuhani

  • A Review of Hindriks’ “Duty to Join Forces:” A Reducible or Irreducible Collective Responsibility?, by Matteo Boccacci

  • Promoting freedom of religious education, by Rodrigo Bustamante

  • Split Mind in a Split Time: The Disturbance of Internal Time Consciousness in Schizophrenia, by Matheus Paim

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Edition #18 | June 2020

  • Rethinking Whitehead’s Metaphysics, by Natalia Derossi

  • The Politesse of Scepticism, by Joost De Raeymaecker

  • The Ethical Implications of AI in Decision-Making, by Jakob Schönhuber

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Edition #17 | January 2020

  • Behavioral Economics: A Shaky Ground for Nudges, by Annalisa Costella

  • Identifying the Other: Grotius and Erasmus on Bad Christians as Jews and Muslims, by Julian Kiefer

  • A Phenomenological Defense of Radical Re-evaluation, by Luc Middelkoop

  • Time Regained, by Sander Tuns

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Edition #16 | June 2019

  • Freedom of Research in Economics: A Goal to Strive for?, by Annalisa Costella

  • Verkeerd Verbonden: Gevolgen en kansen van de sociale theorie van Willem Schinkel voor de bestuurskunde, by Edwin Lokker

  • The Discomfort in Frankfurt, by Koen Schoenmakers

  • Keeping it in the family: Exploring how the context-dependent effects of family business succession on inequality of opportunity can contribute to policy, by Erica Yu

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Edition #15 | January 2019

  • Het belang van metafysica bij Kant, by Marco Molenaar

  • Franz Kafka en de grenzeloze generatie: Jozef K. en Gregor Samsa als jongeren met keuzestress over de toekomst in het algemeen en de liefde in het bijzonder, by Max Koedood

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Edition #14 | June 2018

  • Therapy or Enhancement?: Sex Reassignment Therapy in the Context of Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology, by Art van Houwelingen

  • The Internet: State of Nature or Artificial State?: A Modern Reflection on Hobbes and Rousseau, by Eva Miléna van Reeven

  • Productivity and Inheritance, by Måns Abrahamson

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Edition #13 | January 2018

  • Reinventing Liberalism: Towards a Paradigm Beyond the Homo Economicus, by Mathieu van Kooten

  • Invariance: An Argument for Historical Specificity, by Anne Albert van der Galiën

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Edition #12 | June 2017

  • Een licht dat schijnt op Licht: Over de intellectuele zelfstandigheid van Koerbagh ten opzichte van Spinoza, by Stephan Rijsdijk

  • Compatibilism and the Basic Argument, by Lennart Ackermans

  • The Case of a Fear of Flying: An enquiry into the rationality of recalcitrant emotions, by Thijs Heijmeskamp

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Edition #11 | December 2016

  • Amorality and Banking: Dysfunctional Conscience as Additional Explanation, by Felix den Ottolander

  • Too Little, Too Late: Why we should see Franciscus van den Enden as a follow-up of Pieter Corneliszoon Plockhoy instead of the mastermind behind Benedictus de Spinoza, by Edwin Lokker

  • The Public Sphere in China: Beginnings of a Confucian Public Sphere, by Dennis Prooi

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Edition #10 | July 2016

  • De Lege Database: Een pleidooi voor de netwerk-ontologie, by Dirk-Jan Laan

  • Frankfurt on Identification and Satisfaction: A Critical Response, by Bas Peeters

  • Planthermeneutiek: Een algemene verkenning, by Ruben Koster

  • Tosaka Jun’s Critique of Hermeneutics, by Dennis Prooi

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Edition #9 | December 2015

  • De Houdbaarheid van Kurt Gödels Wiskundige Intuïtie, by Hugo Hogenbirk

  • Economics, Complexity and the Disenchantment of the Social World, by Sam van Dijck

  • Dennett’s Drafters: The Mysteries of the Multiple Drafts Model, by Thijs Heijmeskamp

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Edition #8 | July

  • The Late Wittgenstein and Marxian Thought: An Analysis and Defense of Marxian Attractions to and Uses of Wittgenstein’s Later Work, by Sina Talachian

  • Rechtvaardigheid: ook iets voor de jurist?, by Jochem Streefkerk

  • Socialist Principles of Appropriative Justice: A Reply to Husami, by Victor van der Weerden

  • What Does Desert Cost?: Evaluating Moriarty’s Rationale for the Asymmetry of Desert, by Huub Brouwer

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Edition #7 | December 2014

  • Deleuze en het Zijn: De aanwezigheid van Heidegger in Verschil en Herhaling, by David van Putten

  • Cultural Difference and Human Rights: A Philosophical-Anthropological Approach, by Julien Kloeg

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Edition #6 | June 2014

  • On Metaphysical Cases against Political Theories, by Manuel Buitenhuis

  • Discussing Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale, by Huub Brouwer

  • Would You Press a Button that Kills All Psychopaths?: The Two-Order Ratificationism Theorem of Causal Decision Theory, by Nora Neuteboom

  • Wittgenstein vanuit continentaal fenomenologisch perspectief, by Myrthe van Nus

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Edition #5 | December 2013

  • Philosophy & The Discourse of Economics: Why Modernism is no longer Emancipatory for Economics, by James Grayot

  • Is Information Out There?, by Jasper van den Herik

  • Getting the Description Right: Saving Transitivity from Arbitrary Translation, by Darian Heim

  • Philosophy and Religion in Service of the Philosophia Christi, by Nicole Linkels

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Edition #4 | July 2013

  • Respecting Preferences: Gender Justice and the Normative Hierarchy View, by Julien Kloeg

  • The Metaphysical Case against Luck Egalitarianism, by Willem van der Deijl

  • De hybride en zijn ritme: Voorbij het onderscheid tussen subject en object, by Monique Goense

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Edition #3 | December 2012

  • Vervuld leven na de dood van God: Existentiële oefeningen in inter-esse, by Daan Gijsbertse

  • Conscious Reasoning or Quick Intuition?: Psychological Accounts of Moral Judgment in between Determinism and Free Will, by Barış Kennedy

  • Emotietheorieën: Cognitief, non-cognitief of beide?, by Ruud Kleyweg

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Edition #2 | July 2012

The Paradox of Religious Neutrality, by Sébastien de la Fosse

  • The Alignment of Morality and Profitability in Corporate Social Responsibility, by Joanna Semeniuk

  • Luck Egalitarianism and Procreation, by Johanna Thoma

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Edition #1 | December 2011

  • The Foreground and Background of Consciousness: An Introspective Argument Against Introspection, by Mara van der Lugt

  • Het spel der betekenissen: Een speelse hermeneutiek van de hermeneutiek, by Elize de Mul

  • The Argument for Anomalous Monism, Again, by Deren Olgun

  • Geschreven met licht: The Falling Man en de vervluchtiging van de tragedie in de geest van de rouw, by Karin de Bruijn

  • Ideal Theory and Utopia, by Volker Ruitinga

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