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How are writing and mathematics related? This biography of the Weill siblings explores the links

Susan Haris
· Sep 15, 2019 · 11:30 am
To know thyself, speak in the third person – it could make you wiser

David Robson, Aeon
· Aug 25, 2019 · 11:30 pm
How national stereotypes killed the European dream of 19th century philosophers

Daniel Whistler, The Conversation
· Aug 19, 2019 · 11:30 pm
What different theories of philosophy tell us about Gandhi’s experiments with truth

Shaj Mohan Divya Dwivedi
· Aug 13, 2019 · 08:30 am
How to party like existentialist philosophers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre

Skye C Cleary, Aeon
· Aug 02, 2019 · 05:30 pm
Why Irad Kimhi is the contemporary philosopher we must read in the age of fake news

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi
· Jul 07, 2019 · 08:30 am
Why philosophical writing should read like a letter written to yourself

John Lysaker, Aeon
· May 20, 2019 · 05:30 pm
I set up a booth on a New York street corner with two other philosophers. Here’s what people asked

Lee McIntyre, The Conversation
· Feb 09, 2019 · 11:30 pm
At once tiny and huge: How philosophers describe the feeling we call ‘sublime’

Sandra Shapshay, Aeon
· Dec 31, 2018 · 08:30 pm
’Tis the season to be busy: The modern obsession with busyness can find a solution in history

Clare Holdsworth, The Conversation
· Dec 27, 2018 · 09:30 pm
Why intellectuals need to stop reminiscing about the Enlightenment as a golden ‘age of reason’

Henry Martyn Lloyd, Aeon
· Nov 23, 2018 · 11:30 pm
How Jewish reformers took the ‘materialism’ stereotype and turned it into an ethos of hope

Eliyahu Stern, Aeon
· Nov 16, 2018 · 11:30 pm
Is it okay to admire past thinkers even if they held racist or sexist views?

Julian Baggini, Aeon
· Nov 15, 2018 · 11:30 pm
Is it a duck or a rabbit? The philosophical underpinning of an old visual trick

Stephen Law, Aeon
· Aug 04, 2018 · 11:30 pm
Why the existence of god cannot be proved (or disproved) in a way acceptable to everyone

Nikk Effingham, The Conversation
· Jul 11, 2018 · 05:30 pm
Ayn Rand’s dangerous ideas are becoming increasingly popular and dismissing her is not the solution

Skye C Cleary, Aeon
· Jun 27, 2018 · 06:30 pm
What John Stuart Mill wrote in the margins of the books he read reveals a lot about his mind

Albert Pionke, The Conversation
· May 08, 2018 · 08:30 am
The TM Krishna column: Does it matter if Lingayatism is not philosophically distinct from Hinduism?

TM Krishna
· May 07, 2018 · 08:00 am
Hannah Arendt famously spoke of the ‘banality of evil’. But did she miss a deeper meaning?

Thomas White, Aeon
· Apr 30, 2018 · 05:30 pm
Why every Sufi master is in some ways a Freudian psychotherapist

Omnia El Shakry, Aeon
· Apr 23, 2018 · 11:30 pm