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Star Trek: Enterprise
Sofia Villaweaver asks, what kind of future do we want — Gene Roddenberry's, or Friedrich Nietzsche's?
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June/July 2026
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The Delphic Injunctions
Massimo Pigliucci philosophises about prophetic principles.
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June/July 2026
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What’s the Value of Mountaineering?
Suleyman Moollan wonders why people climb mountains.
8 min |
June/July 2026
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Death as Life’s Picture Frame
Joshua Clements puts us in the picture.
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June/July 2026
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Philosophers on Butterflies
Summer is upon those of us in the northern hemisphere. That invites reflection.
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June/July 2026
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Margalit & Limits to Political Compromise
Laure Gillot-Assayag reflects on the political philosophy of Avishai Margalit.
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June/July 2026
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Making Omelettes & A Future Like Ours
Jimmy Alfonso Licon wonders what's wrong with killing — first chickens, then humans.
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June/July 2026
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Breakfast with Habermas
Matt Qvortrup recalls chat over coffee and scrambled eggs with a champion of reasoned debate.
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June/July 2026
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Who Wants to Live Forever?
Dan Pollen weighs up the pros and cons of indefinitely extended life.
10 min |
June/July 2026
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Carl Schmitt (1888-1985)
Marco Pandolfini on the ideas of a highly contentious legal theorist.
9 min |
June/July 2026
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The Tragic Destiny of Life on Earth
Grant Bartley regrets ever getting into a time machine.
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June/July 2026
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Why Sport Needs Good & Evil
Kola Adeosun & Ato Kenya Rockcliffe on the dynamics of sporting greatness.
9 min |
June/July 2026
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Cut-Price Dualism: ‘Properties Not Substances’
Raymond Tallis says a modern modified mind-body dualism still doesn’t work.
7 min |
June/July 2026
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Jurgen Habermas: Defender of the Enlightenment
Patrick West on postmodernism and communicative reason.
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June/July 2026
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Immortality & A Galactic Future
Andy Yee looks forward to humanity's technological ascension.
10 min |
June/July 2026
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A Critique of Antinatalism
Deniz Kose thinks there’s good reasons to want human life to continue.
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June/July 2026
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Great Minds, Flawed Lives
Tony Shenton asks, should we cancel the compromised intellectual, or read them?
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June/July 2026
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Antonio Negri (1933-2023)
was an Italian political philosopher who in his time courted controversy, and was even jailed for links with Communist organisations. Leonardo Caffo talked with him about the future of the Left.
6 min |
June/July 2026
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Nosferatu
Stefan Bolea considers two very different artistic approaches to love and death.
6 min |
April/May 2025
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Heidegger's Ghost
Raymond Tallis wonders where Heidegger's body went when he was philosophising.
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April/May 2025
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Is Comedy Good For Us?
Damaris Stock has a laugh with Plato and friends.
10 min |
April/May 2025
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In Defense of Idleness
Wendell O'Brien says, 'Just Don't Do It'.
10 min |
April/May 2025
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Leaving Nothing to Chance by Carl Knight
LEAVING NOTHING TO Chance (2025) by Carl Knight, is an informed, proficient and lucid defence of luck egalitarianism.
3 min |
April/May 2025
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Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
THE 1937 SCIENCE FICTION novel Star Maker was written by philosophy professor Olaf Stapledon in the dark days as Europe awaited the onslaught of Nazi Germany. This casts a shadow over the whole book.
6 min |
April/May 2025
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Love & Emptiness in the Sufi Tradition
Medha Ninad Tambe meditates on Rumi, love and self-negation.
7 min |
April/May 2025
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The Hedgehog's Dilemma: A Metaphor About the Challenges of Human Intimacy
Krishna Chaubey explains Arthur Schopenhauer's poignant thought experiment.
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April/May 2025
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The Mirror & the Flame
Rebwar Fatah imagines Attar's & Hegel's shared path.
4 min |
April/May 2025
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Free and Equal by Daniel Chandler
DANIEL CHANDLER, AN economist and philosopher based at the London School of Economics, begins Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? (2023) by asking an intriguing question. How is it, he wonders, that the most influential political philosopher of the last century has had almost no practical impact on politics or policy? The philosopher in question is John Rawls, whose magnum opus was A Theory of Justice (1971).
5 min |
April/May 2025
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A Memetic Analysis of Narratives & Conspiracies
Ignacio Gonzalez considers how memes replicate into conspiracy theories.
10+ min |
April/May 2025
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Four Roles That Shape Life
Massimo Pigliucci considers persona development.
3 min |