North Atlantic professional philosophy has only recently been awakening to the realization that societies in the global South have rich traditions of thought. While efforts to break beyond the narrow canon of academic philosophy ought to be welcomed, a truly robust engagement with African, Asian, Latin American and other philosophical systems will demand more than the odd additional reading tacked on at the bottom of the syllabus to round off the semester.

From quantum physics to the anti-rationalism of Thomas Kuhn. By Tim Maudlin.

In an era when untestable ideas such as the multiverse hold sway, Michela Massimi defends science from those who think it hopelessly unmoored from physical reality. By Philip Ball.

Those who defend the established order want you to believe that you’re stupid and can’t change anything. By Nathan J. Robinson.

Rather than a golden ratio or a moral judgment, beauty is more like a radical jolt that awakens us to the world, By Shahidha Bari.

"That means for example that if all the climate scientists in the world were wiped out by a freak meteor at a conference, climate science would quickly reappear and say basically the same things again, as more or less happened when the Catholic Church tried to suppress heliocentricism." By Thomas R. Wells.

Identifying the mechanics of emotions. By Neil Savage.

Steven Nadler on Spinoza.

By Roger Schank. (Jan. 10, 2017)

A new book on Renaissance mathematics makes a bold case. By Josephine Livingstone. (April 27, 2018)

The alt-right is obsessed with the 19th-century German philosopher. They don’t understand him. By Sean Illing.

Philosophers love to use thought experiments, here are seven of the most useful for making you reflect on everything around you. By Scotty Hendricks.

“Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity” – Jean Cocteau. By Aaron Dabbah.

History tells us he invented modern philosophy. That history is wrong. By Christia Mercer. (Sept. 25, 2017)

With her latest book, Natural Causes, Barbara Ehrenreich notes that there’s an age at which death no longer requires much explanation.

For centuries, people who were born blind have been the intellectual curios of philosophers studying consciousness. This is particularly true for those exploring the way our consciousness is effected by our bodies, especially our eyes, which Leonardo da Vinci described as the “window of the soul”.

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Thomas Nagel reviews “As If: Idealization and Ideals” by Kwame Anthony Appiah.

Donald S. Lopez, Jr. looks at Voltaire's early reflections on Buddhism and how, in his desire to separate the Buddha's teachings from the trappings of religion, the French Enlightenment thinker prefigured an approach now familiar in the West.

From neuroscience to cosmology, Hawking to Dawkins, many argue science can do away with philosophy. Yet science is replete with philosophical  puzzles. Should we see science as one metaphysics amongst others? Or is this to swap the megalomania of science with that of philosophy?