philosophy

Of Unborn Ghosts and Ancestral Murder; Or, Celebrating the Chaos That Led to Us

Brian Klaas Considers the Fragile Foundations of Our Individual and Collective Existence

 
By Brian Klaas  January 24, 2024
Philosophy

Why Are We Here? On the Philosophical Possibilities of “Cosmic Purpose”

By Philip Pullman, Philip Goff and Nigel Warburton  January 19, 2024
Science fiction

How a 20th-Century Czech Play Influences Our Understanding of Science and Humanity

By Jitka Čejková  January 16, 2024
Love and Romance

Love and Looking: On What We (Don’t) See Together

By Devorah Baum  November 2, 2023
Divine Inspiration

Too Good To Be True: How Angels Continue to Inspire

By Ed Simon  October 20, 2023
Existentialism

James Reich on Existential Fiction and the Imprint of Nature

By James Reich  September 13, 2023
Cosmology

On the “Inverted Cosmos”—From Aristotle to the Middle Ages

By William Egginton  August 30, 2023
Love

Was Tolstoy An Enemy of Love? On the Russian Great’s Animosity Towards Desire

By Ron Rosenbaum  August 16, 2023
Nazi Germany

“Woman, Jew, Intellectual:” How the Nazi State Saw Hannah Arendt

By Wolfram Eilenberger  August 10, 2023
The Good Fight

Philosophy is for Everyone: A Conversation with Arianne Shahvisi

By Mira Ptacin  August 8, 2023
Black History

How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought

By Christopher Cameron  July 27, 2023
Keen On

Nikhil Krishnan on Why Oxford’s Early 20th-Century Philosophers Still Matter

By Keen On  July 13, 2023
Work

Henry David Thoreau Was Funnier Than You Think, Particularly on the Subject of Work

By John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle  June 26, 2023
Keen On

Peter Cave on the Scholars, Dreamers, and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live

By Keen On  June 23, 2023
Philosophy

On Learning How to Live From Ralph Waldo Emerson

By Mark Matousek  June 22, 2023
History of Science

The Cathedral of Science: On the Struggle to Find Clear and Satisfying Solutions

By Amy Dockser Marcus  June 12, 2023
Keen On

Daniel Chandler on What a Fair Society Should Look Like

By Keen On  May 1, 2023
Transphobia

Why the Culture of the So-Called Great Books is Hostile to Trans People

By Naomi Kanakia  April 14, 2023
Keen On

Diana Janney on the Philosophical Foundations of Her Fiction

By Keen On  April 6, 2023
Humanism

Sarah Bakewell on Posthumanism, Transhumanism, and What it Actually Means to Be “Human”

By Sarah Bakewell  April 5, 2023
Philosophy

How To Think Like a Woman: A Brief Accounting of Unacknowledged Philosophical Genius

By Regan Penaluna  March 20, 2023
Philosophy

The Female Philosophers Unjustly Excluded from the Canon

By Regan Penaluna  March 13, 2023
Philosophy

How Philosophy Attempts—and Often Fails–To Grapple With Experiences of Trauma

By Susan J. Brison  March 9, 2023
Language

Jonathan Lear on Learning from Linguistic Example on the Playground

By Jonathan Lear  December 23, 2022
Philosophy

“I Didn’t Ask to Be Here.” Or: How Do We Find Value in This Life?

By Nick Riggle  December 16, 2022
Keen On

In a Time of Hostility Toward Reason and Science, What Can the Ancient Greeks Teach us About the Value of Rationality?

By Keen On  December 1, 2022
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