School · 1947 CE–present
Contemporary philosophy
Contemporary philosophy is late twentieth- and twenty-first-century debates across analytic, continental, feminist, decolonial, and other traditions.
Shared questions
- Which inherited philosophical methods remain adequate to present social, scientific, and political problems?
Internal disagreements
- Whether philosophy should prioritize conceptual analysis, historical critique, lived experience, public intervention, or interdisciplinary research.
Key texts
- A Theory of Justice · 1971 — Rawls's book set the agenda that much later political philosophy in this period argues with.
- Women and Human Development · 2000 — Nussbaum's statement of the capabilities approach in the form of a list of central capabilities.