Who's To Say?

Michael-John Turp asks if anyone has the authority to establish moral truth.

The Cognitive Gap

Justin Bartlett explores a basic distinction between understandings of ethics.

Chamfort (1740-1794)

Martin Jenkins looks at the life of a wry observer of society, cut short by that society's revolutionary turmoil.

Descartes & Stupidity

Trevor Pateman asks: stupidity - essence, or accident?

The Urgency of Art

Sam McAuliffe thinks that art offers another way of thinking.

Hannah Arendt On the Spectre of Nuclear War

Maurits de Jongh finds our contemporary situation reflected in earlier states.

Hap & Happiness

Stephen Anderson meditates on misfortune and meaning.

Can Machines Be Conscious?

Sebastian Sunday Grève and Yu Xiaoyue find an unexpected way in which the answer is 'yes'.

What's Stopping Us Achieving Artificial General Intelligence?

A. Efimov, D. Dubrovsky, and F. Matveev explore how the development of Al is limited by the perceived need to understand language and be embodied.

Arguing with the Chinese Room

Michael DeBellis says Searle's famous argument about computers not having understanding does not compute.

Al & Human Interaction

Miriam Gorr asks what we learn from current claims for cyberconsciousness.

What it Means to be Human: Blade Runner 2049

Kilian Pötter Introduces the big ideas and problems around artificial consciousness.

French Philosophy Now

Manon Royet tells us what's happening in French philosophy, and why you don’t know about it.

An Invitation to Navel Gazing

Raymond Tallis requests the pleasure of your company for this most philosophical of gatherings.

BABYLON 5

Stuart Hannabuss has five questions for Mr Morden.

Peter Adamson

is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Duanne Ribeiro chats with him about the history of ideas, and the meaning and methods of philosophy.

Mohist Anti-Militarism & Just War Theory

Shaun O'Dwyer takes an unfortunately still relevant look at how to avoid war.

Moral Education in Confucianism

Plakshi Jain compares reflection’ and learning’ as means of becoming good.

Poetry & Philosophy for the 21st Century

Benjamin Lloyd gets Dewey-eyed over resonant rhymes.

On Regret

David Charles argues that we should not regret our decisions, but should take responsibility for our decision-making processes.

Ethics in Politics

Massimo Pigliucci trawls the history of politics to see how closely ethics fits it.

What Am I Doing?

James Gallant, writer, reflects on the psychology of creativity.

In Praise of Aphorisms

Grahame Lockey writes pithy observations to make you think about pithy observations to make you think.

Creating Cities

Harry Drummond builds a case.

The Philosophy of Creativity

Rick Lewis asks what's new in this fascinating field

Plaiting Gravy

Les Jones on allegories, specific domains and Wittgenstein’s social ideas

How Did We Get To Be So Different?

Raymond Tallis grasps the grip our hands have on our humanity.

DON'T LOOK UP

Dylan Skurka marvels at the human capacity to ignore existential threats.

Was Spinoza Actually An ATHEIST?

Kenneth Novis says the case hinges on how you define 'God'.

Digital Freedom

Roberta Fischli & Thomas Beschorner argue that our digital future is not preprogrammed: it's about time we start thinking about what it should look like.