"Uexküll vehemently rejected the position that organisms are merely highly complex machines and can be fully explained in mechanistic terms"

"Freedom cannot be a property of the will, for freedom is the ontological condition that makes willing possible."

"Philosophy written by men gets positioned as philosophy; philosophy written by women gets positioned as feminist philosophy."

"It is in its situatedness, in its being placed, that thinking finds its very possibility and its proper ground."

To his later chagrin, Emil Mihai Cioran was born in Rășinari, Romania, in 1911. His father Emilian was an Orthodox priest, while his...

Sweet lord, you play me false. (Miranda, in Shakespeare’s The Tempest) ​ In the last year, chess has grown enormously in popularity...

I ​ A. A violent order is a disorder; and B. A great disorder is an order. These Two things are one. —Wallace Stevens...

On 27 April 2021, a political representative in a parliamentary committee called on an education minister to do more so that academics...

Artwork by Joanna Borkowska In her Preface to the majestic novel Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison describes the memory of her father as her...

"To leave the cave is to abandon something that matters deeply: politics, the material world, art and poetry and beauty."

This article is written in the first-person plural. In other words, you’re going to see the word “we” a lot and you’ll be presented with...

Artwork by Nicole Franchy A few years ago I came upon a controversy regarding an article, “In Defense of Transracialism,” by the...

Artwork by Joanna Borkowska Philosophy, according to classical metaphysicians, begins in wonder: why is there something rather than...

Artwork by Melody Overstreet In the years leading up to the 1975 publication of Against Method, Paul Feyerabend rehearsed many of the...

Artwork by jc lenochan Hannah Arendt starts off her famous essay “What is authority?” by immediately translating the title question into...

We’ve all heard about helpful gut bacteria that play an active role in human and animal digestion. It is the perfect example of...

Artwork by Joanna Borkowska The idea of nothingness is one of the most confounding mysteries thinkers face. For millennia, the greatest...

Artwork by Joanna Borkowska “Post-truth” seems to be among the few welcome casualties of the Covid-19 pandemic. Pronounced Oxford...

Artwork by Joanna Borkowska Over the last two decades, there has been increasing engagement in western analytic philosophy with ethical...

Artwork by Joanna Borkowska Perhaps the essence of nihilism consists in not taking the question of the nothing seriously. — Martin...