The Garden of Ideas

Are you interested in being apart of our editing team? We're looking for University of Washington students with diverse ranges of knowledge, not strictly limited to philosophy
Tinyurl.com/GardenofIdeasHiring
Interviews will be conducted during the last few weeks of spring and into the summer as needed. If you have any questions, send us an email!

At the Doorstep, poem and original artwork by L. Steltzer
Brown has bled into the city, //

and hazed the soil grey //

and clinging to their seeded stems, the last marigolds //

shatter cement and shine //

a gold joy //

still hot through the fabric of memory //

warming my fingers on hearth skin //

at the doorstep home

The deadline is TONIGHT at 11:59pm! Don’t miss your chance to be in our journal this year 📝

Join us FRIDAY for a chance to openly discuss your most pressing philosophical questions! Bring poetry, artwork, questions, and an open mind. Food and drinks will be provided ☕️🥐

Spring Submissions are open!
We’re looking for submissions from undergraduates. Submit by 11:59pm on April 24th 📝📬

"... but in order to analyze Whitman’s moral agency, we must examine what it means to be “Charles Whitman,” or more broadly, what it means to be “you” or “me.” It is of necessity to address what “you” means before accusing you of committing a crime?" - S. Wang

A Brief Discussion of Free Will, Moral Agency, and Neurological Influence — The Garden of Ideas *This section may contain emotionally triggering content*

The Garden of Ideas will be hosting a philosophy open mic on April 22nd, 3pm @ Cafe Allegro on the ave!
This will be a chance to openly discuss the pressing philosophical questions in your head among other philosophy-minded students. Food and drinks provided!

Spring Submissions are now open!
We’re looking for submissions from undergraduates in the form of original artwork, photography, poetry, and both creative and academic writings to be published in our next issue. Be sure to email us your submission by 11:59pm on April 24th.

For specific guidelines on submissions visit the contact page of our website.

Contact Us — The Garden of Ideas Contact [email protected] submissions are due by 11:59pm on April 24th and can be submitted via email.Be sure to include your name and contact information. Writing samples should be between 2,000-5,000 words, including a works cited page. There are no specific guidelines for art submissi...

Welcome back from spring break fellow Huskies!
Be sure to stay tuned for our newest edition out this week

The Garden of Ideas UW Undergraduate Philosophy Journal   Click to View the Fall 2021 EditionSubmit to [email protected] 2022 submissions are now closed A journal in search for truth rather than actually obtaining it. Recent Content A Brief Interview with Laurence BonJour INTERVIEWBy Braeden Giaconi Read Now ...

The Garden of Ideas is excited to feature poetry like "The Gender Binary and the Space Race" by A. Stein

The Gender Binary and the Space Race — The Garden of Ideas By Asher Stein   Though a bedpoem’s always hindered  let me reveal you a deconstruction  unfit for textbooks   unfit for school   unfit for hymns at the   public swimming pool  Tie ourselves up real nice&

“How can we determine whether astrology is a science or a pseudoscience?”
Check out our recent publication by S. Thotathri and their answer this question

Popper and Kuhn on Demarcation — The Garden of Ideas By Sriram Thothathri Susan Miller, a prominent astrologist, stated on CBS New York that 2020 would “be a prosperous year” and that certain periods of time would be full of wealth and travel (Phelan). However, as shown by the impact of COVID-19 on the world economy and travel, this prediction tur

"What if I hid in the mountains, and died in the woods? Is there anything to that?" - C. Jaques

Pasta Night — The Garden of Ideas By Chloe Jaques Sharp lines of guilt  in the den of the summer,  I drag the spoon through the sauce on the stove and it slides its way back in the garlicky wake. And there is no way to never hurt anyone,  I will make wounds with my spoon accidentally.  The

"Apocalypse is just a pretty word..."
- On Entopy, a poem by J. Kudler

On Entropy — The Garden of Ideas By Julia Kudler   Apocalypse is just a pretty word we use to calm the overwhelming terror of knowing that eternity is an unfathomable concept.   Nothingness lives in the space between my fingers, the melody of the love song my first girlfriend never wrote me, the appeara

"We all get the news: flight is restricted. //

Airways are told it is simply too much, //

too much to see from the ground anymore, //

to justify. // ..." - C. Jaques

Flight Path — The Garden of Ideas By Chloe Jaques We all get the news: flight is restricted.  Airways are told it is simply too much,  too much to see from the ground anymore,  to justify.  Yesterday I was told,  “You ascribe yourself godly influence,  just for the purp

"First encounters with Kant and his philosophy are somewhat violent... Kant’s philosophy is violent in this sense, as all that once felt so certain, so unshakable, loses its authoritative character." - C. Barton

Violence in Philosophy: Deleuze’s Critique of Kant — The Garden of Ideas By Charlie Barton First encounters with Kant and his philosophy are somewhat violent. Suddenly, all prior explanations regarding the nature of thought, the relationship between ideas and reality, and the constitution of knowledge become feeble and lacking. Kant’s philosophy is violent in this sens...

Our editor in chief was recently interviewed by The Daily!

Check out Braeden talk about our experience as a Husky Seed Fund winner and our goals as a new journal

Husky Seed Fund applications open for winter quarter The Husky Seed Fund is an award created by the Husky Experience Student Advisory Council (HESAC) in 2016 through which students from the three UW campuses can apply to receive

Check out our featured fall submission on the influence that colonialism had on the development of 19th-century statistical thought and the philosophical problems with "Whig history."

A Hankins prize winner for History & Philosophy of Science last year.

Development of Statistics During the 19th Century — The Garden of Ideas By Townsend Rowland            This paper’s purpose is to respond to Theodore Porter’s claim in  The rise of Statistical thinking, 1820-1900  that The history of this curve, now known as the Gaussian or normal distribution,

The Garden of Ideas is excited to present Dry Morning Sunday by Chloe Jaques.

It is with great excitement for us to be able to include poetry as an addition to our discussion on philosophy.

Dry Morning Sunday — The Garden of Ideas By Chloe Jaques  Angry eyed,  a glance toward the house reveals  a stricter picture than I thought might  be there, still and burning,  I come in from the woods.  And you see me wind through the fields in the window, face colored red fro

"Eventually, the diamond engagement ring came to substitute the assurance, trust, and security that the breach of promise action laws had once provided to women. However, times change just as norms do, and while diamond engagement rings are still used to signal long-term commitment through the “burning” of resources, women are no longer reliant on men for their socioeconomic survival." - E. Jain

Does it Ring True Today? — The Garden of Ideas By Esha Jain Contemporarily, diamond engagement rings have come to signal a man’s willingness to commit to a woman within marriage between heteronormative couples. Brinig maintains that this signal was made necessary by the dissolution of the breach of promise action laws, which originally “en

Check out our website for our latest publications!

The Garden of Ideas The GardenOf IdeasUW Undergraduate Philosophy Journal  Click to View the Fall 2021 EditionSubmissions open now for our Winter edition! Submit to [email protected] A journal in search for truth rather than actually obtaining it. Recent Content On Childhood and Personhood ORIGINAL ARTWORKby ...