Psychedelics and the Limits of Naturalism
"One of the important contributions that psychedelics bring is to offer a person novel conceptualizations of reality."
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Tim Crane
- 12 min
Taking Simulation Seriously
"The mere possibility that we might be living in a VR simulation is considered to be a reason to take it seriously as a theory of reality."
Eraldo Souza dos Santos
- 11 min
SEEING CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE LIKE A STATE
"To see civil disobedience like an activist is to see civil disobedience as a decolonizing praxis."
Jason Blakely
- 11 min
RATIONALITY IS ME
"In Pinker’s tale the rational, technocratic, liberal middle is a kind of virtuous and beleaguered minority."
Leo Zaibert
- 47 min
EMBRACING RETRIBUTIVISM
Gregg Caruso’s Rejecting Retributivism is a resolute and wide-ranging book. Since I cannot address all the material in it that deserves...
Linsey McGoey
- 9 min
Hopeful Ignorance
Artwork by Joanna Borkowska Does being loving, whether it’s as a partner, a child or a parent, require truthfulness at all times? And if...
Alexander Douglas
- 10 min
The Rewilding of Philosophy
Artwork by Joanna Borkowska When two things are distinct from each other, what makes them distinct? An odd question, perhaps, but one...
David Livingstone Smith
- 13 min
Are We Decent Deep Down?
Homo sapiens are by nature a social species. Sociality – indeed, what biologists call ultrasociality – is built in to human nature. There...
Matthew McKeever
- 12 min
Shadows of an Alternative Present
It’s the 20th year of the century. The world is in chaos: Europe is knitted together by financial obligations that seem to benefit few...
Lisa Whiting
- 7 min
On Having a Voice
“I was writing about what it means not to have a voice and making the case for the redistribution of that power.” – Rebecca Solnit ...
Alexander Douglas
- 11 min
The Goods of the Earthly City
Humans are the only mortal creatures – this is a doctrine that Hannah Arendt found in the pre-Socratic Greeks. In their vision, the gods...
Can William James Save Your Life? Maybe...
Luca Upper Many philosophers are sceptical of “philosophy as self-help” type books, possibly because they resent having to stand between...
Vafa Ghazavi
- 13 min
Philosophy After the Crisis
In a 2016 article on “Philosophy and Ideology,” Amia Srinivasan illuminates the peril of analytic philosophy displacing a politics from...
Jeremy Fantl
- 11 min
The Epistemologist's Moment
"Everything is Fine" by Jacques Rival It’s our time. Or so philosophers like to think. Technological and cultural developments over the...
Anthony Morgan
- 28 min
Resisting the Ontological Limbo Dance
Where, if anywhere, are we to locate the mind? Can it be pinned down like an X on a map? According to a number of highly influential...
Brian O’Connor
- 10 min
Idleness and Society
What was it that motivated your book on idleness? It was actually an accident that brought me to it. I have always been interested in...
Elizabeth Robson
- 9 min
Sex and Drugs (and Ethics)
Pixabay Shortly before Love Drugs arrived in the post, I had finished reading two bestselling books by non-philosophers that both...
Naomi Oreskes
- 11 min
Evolving Our Trust in Science
An alleged UFO seen from a farm near McMinnville, Oregon, 1950. Science History Images/Alamy There’s a church across the road from my...
Anthony Morgan
- 13 min
Bad Faith and the Buddha
The reclining Buddha at Bodhi Tataung (Wikimedia Commons) “People search for goodness and try to throw away evil, but they don’t study...