"Stand Out Of My Light"

Sophie Dibben watches Alexander the Great meet Diogenes the Cynic.

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

Hilarius Bogbinder looks at a man who wanted to make Peace from Warre.

The Philosophy of Work

Alessandro Colarossi has insights for the bored and understimulated.

Towards Love

George Mason on love as shared identity.

Hume's Problem of Induction

Patrick Brissey exposes a major unprovable assumption at the core of science.

A Philosophical History of Transhumanism

John Kennedy Philip goes deep into the search for (post-) human heights.

How to Have a Good Life

Meena Danishmal asks if Seneca's account of the good life is really practical.

Horseplay in Hibernia

Seán Moran explores equine escapades in Eire and elsewhere.

Philosophy & Hurling: Thinking & Playing

Stiofán Ó Murchadha knowing how we know.

Philip Pettit & The Birth of Ethics

Peter Stone thinks about a thought experiment about how ethics evolved.

Edmund Burke & the Politics of Reform

Jon Langford outlines conservative insights gained from revolutionary failures.

Irish Philosophy & Me

Cathy Barry charts her journey through historical Irish thought.

Thomas Duddy & Irish Philosophy

Tim Madigan travels through time to seek the essential nature of Irish thought.

The How & Why Of Consciousness

Raymond Tallis says the mysteries haven't been solved.

Film - DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS

Jason Friend hacks your identity algorithm.

The Discipline of Action

Massimo Pigliucci tells us how to practice forebearance.

Terry Pinkard

Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University in Washington DC, talks to AmirAli Maleki about how Hegel can help us make sense of modern social, cultural and political hot topics.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

Warren Ward looks at the history of a man who looked at the history of the world.

Parrhesia & Doing Philosophy with Children

Maria daVenza Tillmanns considers the need for freedom of speech for children.

Torture & Ticking Bombs

Edward Hall is sceptical about this infamous ethical example's usefulness.

Saying, Keeping Silent & Showing

Slavoj Žižek on Wittgenstein and Cancel Culture.

The Will Is Not Free: You Have To Earn It

Basil Gala on what it takes to free ourselves from our formative factors.

Materialism, Freedom & Ethics

Philip Badger constructs a materialist ethical theory, with the help of John Rawls.

Criticising Strawson's Compatibilism

Nurana Rajabova is wary of an attempt to dismiss determinism to keep free will.

What Is Free Will?

Grant Bartley wants to know what the problem with freedom is all about.

Spinoza & Other Determinists

Myint Zan compares different ways of denying free will.

Prince Shōtoku (574-622)

B.V.E. Hyde looks at the statesman who fathered Japanese philosophy.

Hannah Arendt & the Banality of Evil

Georgia Arkell reconsiders Arendt's explosive report on the trial of Eichmann.

Hannah Arendt & the Complexities of Loving

Jack Pemment considers the strange attraction between two deep minds.

Russell's Moral Quandary

David Berman holds key oppositions in tension, including concerning morality.