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Does anyone really need any expertise to become a philosopher?

David Egan, Aeon
· Jan 04, 2020 · 05:30 pm
Physicist Richard Feynman may have overstated the ‘beauty’ of science

Massimo Pigliucci, Aeon
· Dec 30, 2019 · 11:30 pm
Meet three female philosophers you have probably never heard of in the field of big consciousness

Emily Thomas, The Conversation
· Nov 29, 2019 · 05:30 pm
‘Does not tyranny spring from democracy?’ How Plato’s 380 BC philosophy is truer than ever today

Lenin Cavalcanti Guerra, The Conversation
· Nov 14, 2019 · 11:30 pm
A Darwinian existentialist explains the meaning of life and how he found it

Michael Ruse, Aeon
· Oct 30, 2019 · 11:30 pm
Why Hannah Arendt’s famous ‘banality of evil’ thesis stands the risk of being proved banal itself

Thomas White, Aeon
· Oct 15, 2019 · 06:30 pm
This book argues that democracy is inherently flawed and advocates a return to its predecessor

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi
· Sep 29, 2019 · 07:30 am
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