Sajid Bijapure asks what it does, and what it might do in the future. The word ‘metaphysics’ did not begin as a name for something mysterious. The word originally referred, quite literally, to the ...

Mansi Tripathi hosts a trialogue. One thing is common to all systems of thought, wherever and whenever they arise. They all wrestle with two fundamental questions: What exists? and How do we know? I ...

Simon Everson says Immanuel Kant can help with quantum mechanics. Could it be that the ideas of Immanuel Kant offer an insight into one of the latest branches of physics? The strangeness of quantum ...

Alice Figes agrees with Ernst Bloch that hope can build worlds or destroy them, and philosophy’s task is to tell the difference. Writing in the 1930s, the German philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) ...

Nussbaum wins Kluge Prize • Edgar Morin dead at 104 • Dundee Philosophy fights back • AI’s plan to enslave humanity continues — News reports by Anja Steinbauer ...

Scott F. Parker reflects on philosophy as a preparation for death. The first day I visited my dad in the care facility where he was recovering from a serious infection in his prosthetic aortic valve, ...