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April 5, 2025
Louai Rahal

The need to disconnect

Disconnecting from machines to better connect with oneself
Technology conditions us to spend less of our time experiencing life and more of our time recording it. (more...)
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March 22, 2025
John Shand

Moral Statements and Truth

Moral value statements involve putting things in some order of worth, significance, or importance. (more...)
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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...)
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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...)
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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...)
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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...)
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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...)
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John Shand

Human Extinction

An Even More Modest Proposal
Would it matter if the entire human race became extinct? (more...)
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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...)
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Christopher Tricker

Can Philosophy Save Us?

EGO Hey, Philosophy. How can you help ensure the future of humanity? PHILOSOPHY (more...)
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Nella Leontieva

We and They

Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...)
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Deanna S. Lee

A “Philos” of We

. Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...)
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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...)
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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...)
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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...)
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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...)
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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...)
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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...)
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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...)
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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...)
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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...)
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