April 12, 2025 David E. Cooper Nature, Beauty and Meaning The beauty of a painting of a flower, mountain or sunset normally owes to how it depicts its object, to its rendering of nature. (more...)
Can You Steal a Culture? Making sense of cultural appropriation For a long time, we have been watching the public discussion on cultural appropriation. Many writers and philosophers, even guests we have interviewed here on Daily Philosophy, have been reluctant to discuss the topic in public. (more...)
The Paradox of Fiction Why are we scared by things that don’t exist? The paradox of fiction asks how we can experience genuine emotions for things that we know not to be real. (more...)
John Shand Art, Its Value, And How We See Ourselves Guest article by John Shand 1. What I wish to do is to look at the value of art in the wide human cultural context, most fundamentally indeed as part of the human condition. (more...)
Stunning AI-Generated Art How it works and what it means A sample of AI art generated by Stable Diffusion. Is AI generated art different from human art, and is it art at all? (more...)
Andrei Simionescu-Panait on Elegance Philosopher interviews Dr Simionescu-Panait talks about his research on the phenomenology of elegance, about ‘Socratic’ approaches to philosophical counseling and about his new book on elegance: “The Reconciled Body.” (more...)
