The swarming, ever-changing character of the living world challenges our deepest assumptions about the nature of reality. By John Dupré.

Evidence can only ever be gained through experiments and analyses that are most likely to produce results that falsify or cast doubt on the hypothesis being tested. By Rajiv Prabhakar.

Philippa Foot was one of a group of brilliant women philosophers who swam against the tide of 20th-century moral thought. By Nakul Krishna.

Men are defenseless against female insanity. Sane women could act as a regulating force. Sane woman have to stand up against their crazy sisters and say : "Enough of that".

Could a 2,300-year-old Graeco-Roman philosophy be the key to a happy 21st-century life? By Massimo Pigliucci.

From pickled sharks to compositions in silence, fake ideas and fake emotions have elbowed out truth and beauty. By Roger Scruton.

How we fill gaps in our everyday experiences. By Slavoj ŽIžek.

Perpetrators of violence, we’re told, dehumanize their victims. The truth is worse. By Paul Bloom.

He is the dramatic thunderstorm at the heart of philosophy and his provocation is more valuable than ever. By Julian Baggini.

Seneca thought that anger is a temporary madness, and that even when justified, we should never act on the basis of it. By Massimo Pigliucci.

A frequent tool used within the field of philosophy is that of conceptual analysis.  That is, philosophers regularly deconstruct the logic, meaning and operation of concepts so as to gain a greater…

The importance of loving yourself is a common catchphrase among feel-good gurus and the subject of countless self-help books. But Harvard University’s Michael Puett argues that loving yourself—and all your flaws—can actually be quite harmful. Puett, who earlier this year published a book on what Chinese philosophy can teach us about the good life, suggests that ancient Chinese philosophers would strongly disapprove of today’s penchant for self-affirmation.

Palliative-care doctors explain the “existential slap” that many people face at the end. By Jennie Dear.

A Tank on a Pedestal: Museums in an Age of Planetary Civil War

“Since science took its modern form in the seventeenth century, it has been one long success story.” By contrast, we philosophers “don’t seem to have progressed much in the two and a half millennia since Plato wrote his dialogues.” That’s the conventional wisdom, as described by David Papineau (King’s College London) in The Times Literary Supplement. But if there’s one lesson in philosophy, it’s that the conventional wisdom isn’t the whole story.

What the existence of zombies would do to our philosophy of mind. By Sean Carroll.

A 19th-century philosopher’s nervous breakdown can teach us something about finding peace in a world in crisis. By Adam Etinson.

“Language-games.” By Ian Ground.

In this post, the role of Diotima of Mantinea in Plato’s Symposium is explored. It is argued that the Peloponnesian priestess is represented within that work as not just Plato’s teacher, but also as the personification of beauty and wisdom. This enables Plato Plato and Socratesto establish a symbolism equivalent with Diotima’s teachings, and which permits an explanation of both Love and the drive to philosophise (itself an act of Love).

Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments of Critical Thinking and Democratic Decency. ‘Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.’ By Maria Popova.