March 22, 2025 John Shand Moral Statements and Truth Moral value statements involve putting things in some order of worth, significance, or importance. (more...) March 16, 2025 Gregory Harms Descartes’s Meditations: An Introduction Descartes can be certain of nothing anymore. Two plus two might not equal four, triangles might not have three sides, the sky might not be blue. (more...) March 8, 2025 Rony Guldmann Fat Acceptance and Vaccine Rejectionism Sweetgreen CEO Jonathan Nemen sparked a firestorm in October 2021 when he posted on Linkedin that America hadn’t been paying enough attention to obesity’s role in aggravating Covid’s dangers. (more...) March 2, 2025 Luka Zurkic and Andreas Matthias The Myth of Thinking Machines Two Opinions on the Dangers of AI Artificial intelligence applications cannot fundamentally shape human existence; they cannot model, transform, or design our experiences in truly novel ways. (more...) February 21, 2025 Cassandra Brandt An Impediment to the Body... Not the Will A Sedentary Stoic's Thoughts on Disability and Resilience Following my injury, I was bombarded by an overload of emotions: my anger over my entitlement to everything I’d lost, my deep and dark depression, my horror and fear of a future as a complete quadriplegic. (more...) February 8, 2025 Petrică Nițoaia How to lose friends and influence people Logical fallacies and their use Who does not know that feeling when a discussion becomes unfair, as if sabotaged? You make a good point, but suddenly the person you’re talking to says something odd, absurd or irrelevant. (more...) December 7, 2024 John Shand Human Extinction An Even More Modest Proposal Would it matter if the entire human race became extinct? (more...) November 23, 2024 Paulo Antunes Ensuring Humanity’s Future Lessons from Play, Sport, and Game I see myself and a multitude of other Grasshoppers engaged in playing the most elaborate, subtle, and challenging games. (more...) November 18, 2024 Christopher Tricker Can Philosophy Save Us? EGO Hey, Philosophy. How can you help ensure the future of humanity? PHILOSOPHY (more...) November 9, 2024 Nella Leontieva We and They Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...) November 3, 2024 Deanna S. Lee A “Philos” of We . Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...) October 25, 2024 Daniele Fulvi Philosophy and the Climate Crisis Thinking Clearly to Help Ensure the Future of Humanity Philosophy and the Climate Crisis. Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...) October 18, 2024 Daniel Gregory The Surprising Threat to Human Society How can philosophy help ensure the future of humanity? Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...) October 12, 2024 John Shand In Praise of Misinformation There have been increasingly clamorous calls for the banning, removal, or controlling, or censoring of ‘misinformation’ as an enforced general policy. (more...) October 4, 2024 John Young Myers Verdict We, the Jury, duly impaneled and sworn, upon our oaths, do find the defendant, of her own free will, as to Count One, guilty of First-degree Murder. (more...) September 20, 2024 Özlem Karakus Irvin Yalom: The Spinoza Problem Book review Irvin Yalom’s (b. 1931) The Spinoza Problem: A Novel (Basic Books 2013) intertwines history and philosophy, offering a fresh perspective on two distinct but connected lives. (more...) September 15, 2024 Avery Warfield How Many Cows Does It Take? Navigating the Trolley Problem's Moral Dilemma Here, instead of five people versus one person, the trolley is heading toward N cows and diverting it will kill one person. (more...) August 30, 2024 Christopher Belshaw Still Against Veganism A reply to Petrică Nițoaia My question was – and still is – a short good life with a pain free death, or no life at all, which would you prefer? A reply to Petrică Nițoaia. (more...) August 16, 2024 Ian James Kidd The Hermit of the Lonely Loch Aspiring hermits have many motivations. Smith eloquently testifies to his reasons, some of them deeply personal. (more...) July 27, 2024 Daniel Sadasivan Boltzmann Brains and Epistemology Entropy can be calculated with a concept called multiplicity. The multiplicity is the number of indistinguishable possibilities that could cause the results we observe. (more...) July 12, 2024 Petrică Nițoaia Embracing Kindness The Moral Argument for Veganism Ethical arguments against veganism are examined and refuted. (more...) «« « 1 2 3 4 5 » »»
March 22, 2025 John Shand Moral Statements and Truth Moral value statements involve putting things in some order of worth, significance, or importance. (more...)
March 16, 2025 Gregory Harms Descartes’s Meditations: An Introduction Descartes can be certain of nothing anymore. Two plus two might not equal four, triangles might not have three sides, the sky might not be blue. (more...)
March 8, 2025 Rony Guldmann Fat Acceptance and Vaccine Rejectionism Sweetgreen CEO Jonathan Nemen sparked a firestorm in October 2021 when he posted on Linkedin that America hadn’t been paying enough attention to obesity’s role in aggravating Covid’s dangers. (more...)
March 2, 2025 Luka Zurkic and Andreas Matthias The Myth of Thinking Machines Two Opinions on the Dangers of AI Artificial intelligence applications cannot fundamentally shape human existence; they cannot model, transform, or design our experiences in truly novel ways. (more...)
February 21, 2025 Cassandra Brandt An Impediment to the Body... Not the Will A Sedentary Stoic's Thoughts on Disability and Resilience Following my injury, I was bombarded by an overload of emotions: my anger over my entitlement to everything I’d lost, my deep and dark depression, my horror and fear of a future as a complete quadriplegic. (more...)
February 8, 2025 Petrică Nițoaia How to lose friends and influence people Logical fallacies and their use Who does not know that feeling when a discussion becomes unfair, as if sabotaged? You make a good point, but suddenly the person you’re talking to says something odd, absurd or irrelevant. (more...)
December 7, 2024 John Shand Human Extinction An Even More Modest Proposal Would it matter if the entire human race became extinct? (more...)
November 23, 2024 Paulo Antunes Ensuring Humanity’s Future Lessons from Play, Sport, and Game I see myself and a multitude of other Grasshoppers engaged in playing the most elaborate, subtle, and challenging games. (more...)
November 18, 2024 Christopher Tricker Can Philosophy Save Us? EGO Hey, Philosophy. How can you help ensure the future of humanity? PHILOSOPHY (more...)
November 9, 2024 Nella Leontieva We and They Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...)
November 3, 2024 Deanna S. Lee A “Philos” of We . Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...)
October 25, 2024 Daniele Fulvi Philosophy and the Climate Crisis Thinking Clearly to Help Ensure the Future of Humanity Philosophy and the Climate Crisis. Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...)
October 18, 2024 Daniel Gregory The Surprising Threat to Human Society How can philosophy help ensure the future of humanity? Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...)
October 12, 2024 John Shand In Praise of Misinformation There have been increasingly clamorous calls for the banning, removal, or controlling, or censoring of ‘misinformation’ as an enforced general policy. (more...)
October 4, 2024 John Young Myers Verdict We, the Jury, duly impaneled and sworn, upon our oaths, do find the defendant, of her own free will, as to Count One, guilty of First-degree Murder. (more...)
September 20, 2024 Özlem Karakus Irvin Yalom: The Spinoza Problem Book review Irvin Yalom’s (b. 1931) The Spinoza Problem: A Novel (Basic Books 2013) intertwines history and philosophy, offering a fresh perspective on two distinct but connected lives. (more...)
September 15, 2024 Avery Warfield How Many Cows Does It Take? Navigating the Trolley Problem's Moral Dilemma Here, instead of five people versus one person, the trolley is heading toward N cows and diverting it will kill one person. (more...)
August 30, 2024 Christopher Belshaw Still Against Veganism A reply to Petrică Nițoaia My question was – and still is – a short good life with a pain free death, or no life at all, which would you prefer? A reply to Petrică Nițoaia. (more...)
August 16, 2024 Ian James Kidd The Hermit of the Lonely Loch Aspiring hermits have many motivations. Smith eloquently testifies to his reasons, some of them deeply personal. (more...)
July 27, 2024 Daniel Sadasivan Boltzmann Brains and Epistemology Entropy can be calculated with a concept called multiplicity. The multiplicity is the number of indistinguishable possibilities that could cause the results we observe. (more...)
July 12, 2024 Petrică Nițoaia Embracing Kindness The Moral Argument for Veganism Ethical arguments against veganism are examined and refuted. (more...)
