Philosophy and Current Affairs: The Russia-Ukraine War

Abstract

Few academic philosophy journals are dedicated to the analysis of historically contingent current affairs. Therefore, to explain why I decided to edit a publicly accessible special issue of Studia Philosophica Estonica on the Russia-Ukraine war, I use this editorial introduction to: (a) detail my involvement in the protracted conflict between Russia and Ukraine; (b) describe the connection between my philosophical commitments and my recent civic engagement in Kyiv; and (c) elucidate the dialectical relation between academic and public philosophy, generally