Margaret Cavendish
November 16, 2025
Margaret Cavendish was a writer of poetry, philosophy, polemics, histories, plays, and utopian fiction. She…
Democracy By Numbers
November 1, 2026
Despite adhering to the principle of “one person, one vote,” elections in the United States are often highly contentious: presidents can be elected after losing the popular vote, there is widespread gerrymandering and voter purging, and not everyone has equal representation in the Senate. So…
Narrative and the Meaning of Life
November 9, 2025
Humans are uniquely storytelling creatures who can narrate the events of their own lives. Some…
Impossible Worlds
November 2, 2025
Philosophers often speculate about possible worlds: ways that things could be. Some of them also…
Mary Astell
October 26, 2025
Mary Astell (1666–1731) was an English philosopher and writer who advocated for equal rights for…
In Awe of Wonder
October 19, 2025
Descartes said that the purpose of wonderment is “to enable us to learn and retain…
Making and Breaking Habits
October 12, 2025
We often hear that “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” The idea seems…
Elisabeth of Bohemia
October 5, 2025
Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia is best known for her correspondence with René Descartes. In her letters,…
Zhuangzi: Being One with Ten Thousand Things
September 28, 2025
Zhuangzi, the 4th-century BCE Chinese philosopher, was arguably the most important figure in Taoism. He…
Robert Musil and Life as Experiment
September 21, 2025
Robert Musil (1880-1942) was an Austrian novelist, famous for The Man Without Qualities. Set in…
Can Architecture Be Political?
September 7, 2025
It’s common to judge a piece of architecture based on its functional and aesthetic values,…
Henri Bergson and the Flow of Time
August 31, 2025
Many people think of time as a series of events, like successive frames in a…
Are We Living in a Simulation?
August 24, 2025
With rapid advances in Virtual Reality technology and the like, it’s now possible for us…
Hypatia of Alexandria
August 17, 2025
Hypatia of Alexandria, late antiquity public figure and scholar, made significant contributions to mathematics, philosophy,…
The Value of Music
August 10, 2025
From classical concerts to commercial jingles, music fills our lives every day. But philosophers disagree…
Weird Wants
July 27, 2025
Philosophers from Aquinas to Anscombe have claimed that wanting something means seeing the good in…
The 2025 Dionysus Awards
July 20, 2025
What movies of the past year challenged your assumptions and made you think about things…
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