Of all the major religions, Buddhism enjoys the greatest respect and popularity among those who seek a model for a “spiritual life.” Even...

What follows are the first three installments of Adam Searle and Jonathon Turnbull's Anthropo(s)cene column on "Posthumanisms",...

"African Americans have never been reconciled because America has never acknowledged the truth of what it did to black people."

"Sex/gender is an ontological framework that structures the realities of sexed being into two orders: the biological and the cultural."

Image © William Eckersley To be is to be recognized, Hegel argued. And the reason, by his thinking, was not so much psychological as...

The book that had the greatest impact on my thinking in 2018 was not a philosophy book. It was Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel...

"While it is deeply mistaken to suggest that pessimism is the same as fatalism, the concern behind this is nevertheless a valid one."

"Doesn’t the renunciation of one’s own energetic resources make less of a demand on the energetic resources of the world?"

A good friend, and well-known philosopher, recently told me that the new “Impossible™ WHOPPER® Sandwich” being sold at Burger King will...

The feeling that something is wrong with our way of life has been around for a while – even among those who profit from it. Now, school...

Artwork © Sam Knowles Recently, I was in northern Kenya, watching a reticulated giraffe as it chewed carefully at the soft leaves between...

There are some popular photographic images of Bertrand Russell that come to mind when we hear his name. In them Russell smiles directly...

You are not an algorithm. Neither am I. And yet we open our lives up to being at least partially algorithmised when we acquiesce in a...

The 2016 Democratic presidential primary brought about an unexpected discussion of neoliberalism in US political discourse. The term,...

What do we do when we do philosophy? And what should we do? What method in philosophy is likely to resolve puzzles and lead to reliable,...

The phrase ‘doing philosophy’ has resonated with me since I was fifteen. I used to read a BBC magazine’s weekly transcripts of radio...

The cryptic inscription on the tomb of the French social theorist Charles Fourier reads ‘Attractions are Proportional to Destinies.’ What...

​ The concept of democracy is not tied to a particular time and place. Even if democracy originated at some point, perhaps 5th and 4th...

Identities and identity politics are steeped in controversy. Politicians and pundits are criticizing students and those on the left for...

There are so many different ways we find ourselves enmeshed in the problem of difference. It’s a political problem, when nations or...