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Fyodor Dostoevsky—the 19th-century Russian novelist best known for works like Crime and Punishment and The…

Is addiction a brain disease that forces people to use drugs, even when the drugs…

Whether or not money can buy well-being, it’s certainly crucial (in capitalist societies at least)…

Diogenes of Sinope, the fourth-century-BCE Greek philosopher, invented a philosophical mode of living called Cynicism—not…

Gilbert Ryle was a British philosopher from the mid-20th century, famous for formulating the distinction…

What, if anything, can give meaning to a human life? Is meaning out there to…

Do habits prevent us from experiencing life to the full, or are they critical to…

Robert Musil was an Austrian novelist writing in the 1920s and 30s. He’s most famous…

Bergson is one of the great French philosophers of the 20th century, famous for saying…

For many philosophers—and many non-philosophers too—music one of the greatest gifts we have: it brings…

We at Philosophy Talk have a big soft spot for Schopenhauer, in spite of his…

What does it mean to have a private life these days? Between companies stealing our…

Philippa Foot was a member of the “Oxford Quartet” of moral philosophers, along with Elizabeth…

Mary Midgley, one of the so-called Oxford Quartet (along with Elizabeth Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot), was…

Have you ever driven 70 mph on a road where the speed limit is 65?…

Along with Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, and Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch was one of the “Oxford Quartet” of moral…