KRITIKE  is a Filipino independent, open access, peer-reviewed, and interdisciplinary journal of philosophy founded by a group of University of Santo Tomas alumni. The journal seeks to publish articles and book reviews by local and international authors across the whole range of philosophical topics and schools of thought. The journal primarily caters to works by academic philosophers and graduate students, but contributions by undergraduate students are also welcomed.

 

With the view that there is a continuing increase in the use of the internet as medium of research by scholars and students of philosophy, KRITIKE is made available online and is free to anyone who wishes to use it. Articles are downloadable individually as PDF files; old issues will be moved to the archives section of the website.

 

Due to the online character of the journal, we would like to think that it is free from external constraints. Nevertheless, it should be noted that KRITIKE aspires to hold the same standards as print journals. The editors construe the internet as a legitimate medium for the dissemination of scholarly rigorous philosophical essays. Articles and book reviews published by KRITIKE have all been peer-reviewed and have gone through standard editorial procedures.

 

". . . I would thus propose this general characterization as a rather preliminary definition of critique: the art of not being governed so much."

- Michel Foucault, What is Critique?

The word kritike is Greek from the verb krinein, which means to discern.  Hence, kritike means the art of discerning or the art of critical analysis.  Every form of philosophizing (Continental, Analytic, Western, or Eastern) is, in one way or another, a critique of something.  Hence, being critical seems to be an attitude common to all philosophical traditions.  Indeed, the meaning of philosophy is critique and to be philosophical is to be critical!

 

KRITIKE is published bi-annually in June and December.

 

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Website: http://www.kritike.org/

 

ISSN 1908-7330