Prose

Blogs

My rarely updated personal blog, Notes and Queries, is here

For several years I ran a group blog devoted to politics, books, etc., called explananda. I imported a few of the old posts there into my personal blog.

Publications (and invited talks)

Young, Christopher and Andrew Brook. ‘Schopenhauer and the Mind’ in The New Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer, ed. Sandra Shapshay and Colin Marshall. [Appearing in 2026 or 2027]

Brook, Andrew and Christopher Young. ‘Schopenhauer and Freud’ in *The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis,*, ed. Richard Gipps and Michael Lacewing. 2019. [This is largely a rewrite of Young and Brook 1994]

Young, Christopher and Andrew Brook. ‘Schopenhauer,’ 2006 in The Edinburgh International Encyclopedia of Psychoanalysis.

Young, Christopher and D.S. Hutchinson. ‘Recent work on MSS of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics,’ remarks delivered at the University of Padua and the University of Venice in the Summer of 1998.

Young, Christopher and Andrew Brook. Schopenhauer in *The Freud Encyclopedia*. New York: Garland Publishing. 2001.

Young, Christopher and Andrew Brook. Schopenhauer and Freud, International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 1994 (75), 101-18. [This paper received the Miguel Prados award for best paper in Canadian Psychoanalysis from the Canadian Psychoanalytic Community.]

Essays, etc.

I taught at the University level for several years, and retain a strong interest in pedagogy. One product of this interest is my essay, “How to Teach ‘Introduction to Applied Ethics’, ” the latest version of which can be found here.