James Baldwin and Social Justice
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Sometimes, we struggle to tell the truth—especially when it’s the truth about ourselves. Why did…
Montaigne and the Art of the Essay
February 26, 2023
French thinker Michel de Montaigne invented a whole new genre in which to do philosophy:…
Is the Self an Illusion?
October 9, 2022
Most of us think it’s obvious that we have a self, but famously, both Buddhism…
Summer Reading List: Banned Books Edition
September 4, 2022
The American Library Association reports that last year 1,597 books were challenged or removed from…
Walter Benjamin and the Re-Enchanted World
July 17, 2022
Walter Benjamin was a German Jewish critical theorist, essayist, and philosopher who died tragically during…
Reading the Troubled Past
March 13, 2022
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe lambasted Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness as a deeply racist work that…
Is Postmodernism Really to Blame for Post-Truth?
February 27, 2022
Postmodernism is often characterized by its rejection of concepts championed by the Enlightenment, like meaning,…
Comforting Conversations, pt.2
January 10, 2021
In troubling, uncertain times, the arts and humanities are more important than ever. Engaging with…
Comforting Conversations, pt.1
January 3, 2021
In troubling, uncertain times, the arts and humanities are more important than ever. Engaging with…
Summer Reading List 2018
August 19, 2018
Summer is here – what philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues do you want to read…
Summer Reading List 2017
July 2, 2017
Summer is the perfect time to dig in to deep reading. Hannah Arendt’s The Origins…
The Moral Lives of Animals
May 29, 2016
From Aristotle and Kant to Hume and Darwin, philosophers and scientists have long denied the…
From the Minds of Babies
October 9, 2011
Consciousness, morality, meaning and truth have perplexed and puzzled generations upon generations of philosophers. But…
Predicting the Future
August 23, 2009
People who predict the future well are sometimes said to be psychic. But we all…
Islamic Philosophy
July 12, 2009
Some of the many topics discussed in Islamic philosophy are the Qur’an, knowledge, dreams, justice,…
The Nature of Imagination
October 7, 2007
A lot of our thinking, and even our perception, has to do not only with…
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