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Pharmaco-Metaphysics?
Raymond Tallis argues against acidic assertions, and doubts DMT discoveries.
7 min |
August/September 2025
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Nine Spiritual Exercises
Massimo Pigliucci explains how to get Philo-Sophical.
3 min |
August/September 2025
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Books
We follow mammal's search for meaning, as Mark Vorobej savages John Gray's book of impractical cat philosophy, while B.V.E. Hyde ponders the point of Jordan Peterson. In Classics, Hilarius Bogbinder reviews Plato's Republic.
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August/September 2025
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The Centennial of the Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial
Tim Madigan on the creation and the evolution of a legend.
10+ min |
August/September 2025
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Gödel, Wittgenstein, & the Limits of Knowledge
Michael D. McGranahan takes us to the edge of language, mathematics and science.
10 min |
August/September 2025
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Weltschmerz and the World
Ian James Kidd takes a realistic and global view of the history of pessimism.
10 min |
August/September 2025
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What Makes A Work Of Art Great?
Each answer below receives a book. Apologies to all the entrants not included.
10+ min |
August/September 2025
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The Beatles: Nothing is Real
Clinton Van Inman gets back to the psychedelic Sixties.
4 min |
August/September 2025
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The Post-Truth Kerfuffle
Susan Haack, who is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts & Sciences, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Law, at the University of Miami, talks with Angela Tan about how and when we know.
10+ min |
August/September 2025
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A Crisis of Attention
Paul Doolan attends to our culture of attention demanding.
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August/September 2025
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Me, me, me?
Benjamin George Coles finds himself.
7 min |
August/September 2025
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Henry Odera Oruka (1944-1995)
Robin Attfield looks at the life of a dedicated promoter of African philosophy.
7 min |
August/September 2025
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Gödel, Wittgenstein, & the Limits of Knowledge
Michael D. McGranahan takes us to the edge of language, mathematics and science.
10+ min |
August/September 2025
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The Meaning of a Good Life
Following the sad news of Alasdair MacIntyre's death recently, AmirAli Maleki argues that he and Miskawayh al-Razi shared a similarly Aristotelian vision of the way to live.
7 min |
August/September 2025
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Challenging the Objectivity of Science
Sina Mirzaye Shirkoohi observes science to get the facts straight about it.
10 min |
August/September 2025
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Popper, Science & Democracy
Brian King follows Popper's idea of the evolution of knowledge, life and society.
10+ min |
August/September 2025
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Philosophers on Newspapers
Someone once said that Europe is characterized by the newspaper.
2 min |
August/September 2025
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The Philosophical Method of Exception
Peter Keeble spotlights and critiques a common philosophical technique.
7 min |
August/September 2025
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Knowledge Xuanzang & the Gettier Problem
Maya Koka journeys through the desert to seek knowledge about knowledge.
4 min |
August/September 2025
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Ethics Goes Awry in Humans and AI
The Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet. Early Adopter of Kierkegaard & Tillich Dies
4 min |
August/September 2025
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Affirmative Action for Androids
Jimmy Alfonso Licon asks, when should we prioritise android rights?
10+ min |
June/July 2025
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Welcome to the Civilization of the Liar's Paradox
Slavoj Žižek uncovers political paradoxes of lying.
10+ min |
June/July 2025
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The Importance of the Purple
Massimo Pigliucci looks for threads of integrity in a morally compromised world.
3 min |
June/July 2025
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Ethics for the Age of AI
Mahmoud Khatami asks, can machines make good moral decisions?
10 min |
June/July 2025
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Anand Vaidya (1976-2024)
Manjula Menon on the short but full career of a 'disciplinary trespasser'.
7 min |
June/July 2025
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Studying Smarter with AI?
Max Gottschlich on sense and nonsense when using AI in academia.
5 min |
June/July 2025
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Excusing God
Raymond Tallis highlights the problem of evil.
7 min |
June/July 2025
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Stephen Fry
Perhaps unshockingly for someone who is an actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer, Stephen Fry has a deep interest in words and how we use them. After hearing him lecture on that subject, Marcel Steinbauer-Lewis asked him about Artificial Intelligence and how it connects with the extraordinary lure of language.
8 min |
June/July 2025
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Is VR Meaningful Escapism?
Amir Haj-Bolouri enquires into possible meaning through technology.
9 min |
June/July 2025
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What Simone de Beauvoir Got — And Didn't Get – About Motherhood
Nura Hossainzadeh argues that motherhood is both physical and transcendent.
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