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Red Dust And First Principles

The Secret Gospel of Frankenstein

Taking A Side

The Algorithm of the Logos

Can We Save Morality's Reputation?

Project X

Socrates on Knowing Nothing

Fear

A Supportive Partner Is Not What You Need

Sex Metamorphosis

The stories that keep you up at night are all made up

Deliver Us from Evil – Part 2

Deliver Us from Evil

Bridging Kant and Hijab

The Billiard Match

Classical Liberalism

Nature, Beauty and Meaning

The need to disconnect

Moral Statements and Truth

Descartes’s Meditations: An Introduction

Fat Acceptance and Vaccine Rejectionism

The Myth of Thinking Machines

An Impediment to the Body... Not the Will

How to lose friends and influence people

Human Extinction

Ensuring Humanity’s Future

Can Philosophy Save Us?

We and They

A “Philos” of We

Philosophy and the Climate Crisis

The Surprising Threat to Human Society

In Praise of Misinformation

Verdict

Irvin Yalom: The Spinoza Problem

How Many Cows Does It Take?

Still Against Veganism

The Hermit of the Lonely Loch

Boltzmann Brains and Epistemology

Embracing Kindness

Liberty, Democracy, Justice

James Tartaglia: Inner Space Philosophy

It's OK to Major in English or History

Evil: Ordinary or Extraordinary?

To Exist Is to Play

Same Again?

Global Essay Contest 2024

What does Philosophy do?

Timothy Morton: Hell

Hánfēizǐ

Can You Steal a Culture?

Taking Pessimism Seriously

May 10: Happy Birthday, Karl Barth!

Transfer of Matter

Abortion: The Unconscious Violinist Argument

Live Like a Corpse

Christopher Hamilton: Rapture

Jean Arnaud on AI and the Future

Kant’s Ethics: What is a Categorical Imperative?

New Video Series: Western Ethics Theories

What is ethics?

Western Ethics Theories

Erich Fromm (1900-1980)

Women Philosophers Throughout History

The Princess and the Soul

Reasons and Causes

Kant's conception of freedom

A Better Society?

Islam in 10 Minutes

African Philosophy

Nothing

The Paradox of Fiction

The Case for Feeding the Surfers

Meaning

Israel’s Attack on Gaza

The Power of Love

Art, Its Value, And How We See Ourselves

Studying Philosophy at a Time of Automated Thinking

Plato’s Theory of Forms

What is a Fallacy?

Dan Demetriou on the Ethics of Colonial Monuments

The Presocratics

Transhumanism and Misanthropy

When Is It Right to Break the Law?

The Universe as a Game

Sartre and the Lobsters

Monism and Dualism in the Mind-Body Problem

Involuntary Heroes, Accidental Saints. Catherine Greene on Her Book “The Red Hairband”

The Fabled East

What is the Philosophy of Religion?

Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis

The Province of the Mind

How To Self-Study Philosophy

Would a Society of Intellectuals Be a Better Place?

The Surprising Ethics of Climate Change

The Shortest History of Japanese Philosophy (2)

Misanthropes – Literary and Philosophical

How Humour Works

The Chatbot

Ineffable Understanding

Just Fodder. The Ethics of Feeding Animals

Plato’s Apology

Miguel Angel on Running a Philosophy Site

The Shortest History of Japanese Philosophy (1)

Plato’s Symposium - Part 1

Freeing Yourself from Self-Consciousness

The 7 Most Fascinating Philosopher-Kings in History

Sartre’s Existentialism

A Not Very Philosophical Zombie

Coronation: The Captivating Story of Monarchies

The Most Hated Philosopher: Spinoza on God

What is Utilitarianism?

Hobbes Reconsidered

Unpacking Descartes’ Meditations

A Brief History of Hermeneutics

How to Think Like a Philosopher

A Very Short Philosophical Dictionary

A Case for Postmodernism

Should We Fear Technological Unemployment?

A Language of One’s Own

Should a Liberal State Ban the Burqa?

What is Ethical Investing?

Necessary Vices

Albert Schweitzer on the Reverence for Life

Kant’s Joke: Are Practical Jokes Wrong?

Welcome to the German site!

When Does a Fetus Have Rights?

What does “March of the Penguins” have to do with Kant?

Shane Epting on the Philosophy of Cities

What's So Wrong With Engaged Buddhism?

Superhero Thought Experiments

Should Buddhists Be Social Activists? (Part 3)

The Ballad of Marie and Elsie

The Cicada and the Bird

Should Buddhists Be Social Activists? (Part 2)

Passing Beyond Descartes

Should Buddhists Be Social Activists?

Books that Lead You to Philosophy

Andreas Matthias on Writing About Philosophy

The Problem with Scientism

What Is Philosophy in Simple Words?

Are We Allowed to Destroy Art?

Quiet Quitting

A Short History of Happiness

Stunning AI-Generated Art

October 2: Happy Birthday, Mahatma Gandhi!

Paul Lodge on Philosophy and Music

The Homeric Poems First of All

50 Answers

Nigerian Scammers and Philosophical Muggers

Kant’s Categories and the Stevenson Screen

How Free is Free Enough?

Is Abortion Ethical?

Can AI write philosophy?

Five Most Inspiring Philosophy Books

Am I irrational?

Steven Cassedy: What Do We Mean When We Talk About Meaning

The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness

What’s Wrong with The Passion Economy?

The Knowledge-Effect

When Is an AI System Sentient?

Religion and Happiness

Can We Define Mental Health?

The New Daily Philosophy Magazine

The Principle of Double Effect

Erich Fromm on How to Be Happy

Epicurus: A Guide to the Principal Doctrines

Deepfakes, deception, and distrust

The Wind on Your Face

Shénnóng and the Agriculturalist School

How to Recognise Pure Awareness

Confucianism and Just War

Philosophy and Nuclear Weapons

Jeremy Bentham on Animal Ethics

The Ukraine Conflict: Conduct in War

The Ukraine Conflict and the Ethics of War

I’m depressed and it’s all your fault!

Immanuel Kant on Means and Ends

The Empathy Paradox

Marcus Aurelius on Opinions

In Praise of Pyrrhonian Scepticism

The Dialectic of Enlightenment

Taking the Crowded Bus of Life

Nothing Matters. Or Does It?

Meaning, Value, Death, and God

Highlights of 2021

Who is the Father (or Mother) of Philosophy?

Five More Inspiring Philosophy Books for Your Christmas

The Stoic View of the Self

Nanavira Thera

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What Is a Valid Argument?

Luis de Miranda on Esprit de Corps

Mother Knows Best

Plato and the Ancient Politics of Wine (2)

Stoic Control

What Does ‘Stoic’ Mean?

Plato and the Ancient Politics of Wine

Is Lying Ethical?

If only I hadn’t done that...

Solitude and Contentment

Three Modern Hermits

Roman Yampolskiy on the dangers of AI

Retributivism and Uncertainty

Beauty discrimination

The Wisdom of the Dao

Is Prostitution Morally Right?

Gardens of Refuge

Robert Rodriguez on Hermits

Are Some Countries Objectively Better?

Robert Rodriguez: The Book of Hermits

Dao De Jing: A Hermit’s Manual

Andrei Simionescu-Panait on Elegance

Moral Relativism: What is a good country?

Dao De Jing

Moral Relativism

Going Slow

Huts, Homelessness and Heimat

Wael B. Hallaq on Islamic Law and Human Rights

Meritocracy and discrimination

The Hermit of Suwarrow

Meritocracy: Do we deserve our lives?

Why We Should Read Descartes

August 23: Happy Birthday, #hashtag!

One Hundred Days in a Hermit’s Hut

Luca Possati on Transhumanism

Inventing the New World

Hermits and Happiness

Nudges

Sports and Society

The Ethics of the Olympics

Agency in the Anthropocene

Human Autonomy

What Are We Responsible For?

Does Gratefulness Work?

Technology and Freedom

Is Data Science Evil?

Does Gratefulness Make Happy?

Luis de Miranda on Philosophical Health

Work, Leisure and Fulfilment

Grateful to No One

The Uncontrollability of AI

Small is Beautiful - Economics as if people mattered

Seven Reasons to Outlaw Recreational Drugs

What is Gratefulness?

The New Companion

The Rhetoric of Refuge

What is Deep Ecology?

Living Epicurus Today

Nudges

Happy in a Concentration Camp?

More Aristotle than Galileo?

Philosophy Crossword #006

What Are Friends For?

Happy Endings

Anarchism

Assisted Voluntary Euthanasia

What is Luddism?

Philosophy Crossword #005

Political violence

Selling Happiness, One Chump at a Time

Asimov’s Psychohistory

Philosophy Crossword #004

Stephanie Mills: Epicurean Simplicity

The Utility Monster is... other people!

Death Penalty: Right or Wrong?

Six Reasons to Legalise Recreational Drugs

Epicurus: The Wise Man and the Fool

Philosophy Crossword #003

Enlightened Self-Interest

Chimeras: Animals as hosts for human organs?

Who Needs Cash Anyway?

Kant’s Praiseworthy Motivation

It’s A New Sun Every Day

Are You A Nihilist?

Philosophy Crossword #002

Psychological Hedonism

Who Owns Space?

Philosophy Crossword #001

What to Do When People Talk #$!!~#

Simulating Pleasure

Legalising drugs

Old Age and Death

Reading Epicurus: Pleasure and pain

Is Pleasure Good?

New: The Accented Philosophy Podcast

Are some desires better than others?

Epicureanism: The Basic Idea

The Real Happiness Machine

Epicurus (341-270 BC)

Aldous Huxley’s “Island”

April 26, 121 AD: Marcus Aurelius is born

April 25: Happy Birthday, Genetic Engineering!

Infographic: Love - History of a Concept

Erich Fromm’s New Society

What is Alienation?

A Short History of Love

Erich Fromm: How to Become a Loving Person

Timeline: The Life of Aristotle

What is “Eastern” Happiness?

How Much Money Do We Need?

Who Gets the Vaccine First?

Decluttering the Mind

Vaccination Ethics

To Have Or to Be

Erich Fromm on Our Relation to Technology

Erich Fromm: Society, Technology and Progress

Erich Fromm: Escaping from Freedom

Introductions to Philosophy

Monism, Dualism and the Philosophy of Mind

Hedonism, Pleasure and Happiness

Richard Taylor on the Creative Life

History of Robots: From Albertus Magnus to the Blade Runner

Erich Fromm on the Psychology of Capitalism

Bertrand Russell on How to Find Happiness

The Artificial Man in Ancient Myth

The Conquest of Unhappiness

The Conquest of Happiness and Why It Matters Today

Aristotle (384-322 BC)

Bertrand Russell (1892-1970)

Touching Fish

Martha Nussbaum and the Capabilities Approach

What is Artificial Intelligence?

How to Live an Aristotelian Life

Best of Daily Philosophy 2020

One Year, Six Ways: A Philosophical Experiment

Aristotle on being human

Merry Christmas!

Plato and Christianity

The Paradoxes of Zeno of Elea

Novalis and the Romantic View of the World

Human Dignity and Freedom

Can Machines Think?

Epicurus and Luddism

Is Stealing Always Immoral?

What Is Deontological Ethics?

How Can We Define Love?

What Is a Fair Share of Life?

Aristotle's Highest Good

Hannah Arendt on work and being human

The Ethics of Organ Transplants

Peter Singer's Drowning Child

What Is a Stoic Person?

Which Social Media Site Is the Most Ethical?

Is Whistleblowing Ethical?

The Memories of Our Experiences

The Ethics of Eating Meat

Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love

Erich Fromm on Being Productive

St Augustine on the Function and Pleasure of Sex

Confucius on Loyalty and Betrayal

Kant on Autonomy and Human Rights

Thales of Miletus

Aristotle and the Roots of Deep Ecology

Life Is a Skill

Aristotle on moral development

Do Unicorns Exist?

Love is All Around

September 26: Happy Birthday, Martin Heidegger!

Can love be forever?

September 23: Happy Birthday, Kublai Khan!

Let’s Talk About Love

September 22: John Conway (1937-2020)

September 21: Happy Birthday, Bill Murray!

Freedom is always the freedom to think otherwise

August 27: Happy Birthday, Human Rights!

August 26: Happy Birthday, Mother Teresa!

August 25: Happy Birthday, Galileo’s Telescope!

August 25: Happy Birthday, Gutenberg Bible!

August 22: Happy Birthday, Geneva Conventions and Ray Bradbury!

August 21: Happy Birthday, Sergey Brin!

August 20: Happy Birthday, H.P. Lovecraft!

Is it stupid to hoard toilet paper?

April 5: Happy Birthday, Thomas Hobbes!

March 28: Thales Predicts a Solar Eclipse

The Four Qualities of Life

August 19: Happy Birthday, Gene Roddenberry!

Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976)

How Happy Does This Make You?

Can we measure happiness in a survey?

Can We Be Wrong About Being Happy?

The Gift of Sinning. Autonomy, Surveillance and Freedom.

Aristotle’s Four Causes

Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index