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Photo by Alex Majoli/Magnum This essay isn’t true Alethic nihilism is the theory that nothing is true. There is much to gain by taking this radical idea seriously by David Liggins + BIO Aeon, November 17, 2022 Photo by Alex Majoli/Magnum David Liggins is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Manchester in the UK. Truth is a topic philosophers have spent centuries considering. We hav..

The Sea of Ice (Das Eismeer), by Caspar David Friedrich (1823). Courtesy the Hamburger Kunsthalle/Wikipedia In praise of aphorisms What if we see the history of philosophy not as a grand system of sustained critique but as a series of brilliant fragments? by Andrew Hui + BIO Aeon, June 1, 2022 Andrew Hui is associate professor in literature at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. He is the author of T..

Photo by Fiona Goodall/Getty i Why you should eat meat Not eating animals is wrong. If you care about animals, then the right thing to do is breed them, kill them and eat them by Nick Zangwill + BIO AEON, 24 January, 2022 Nick Zangwill is professor of philosophy and honorary research fellow at University College London. His books include Aesthetic Creation (2007) and Music and Aesthetic Reality ..

This paradoxical life When logic fails to make sense of a world noisy with inconsistency, paraconsistent logics hold out (im)possible solutions by Zach Weber AEON, 11 January 2022 Zach Weber is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He is the author of Paradoxes and Inconsistent Mathematics (2021). Photo by Ernst Haas/Getty Here is a dilemma you may find fam..

Photo by Alexander Demianchuk/TASS/Reuters i Homo imaginatus Imagination isn’t just a spillover from our problem-solving prowess. It might be the core of what human brains evolved to do by Philip Ball + BIO Photo by Alexander Demianchuk/TASS/Reuters AEON 29 October 2021 Philip Ball is a British science writer, whose work appears in Nature, New Scientist and Prospect, among others. His latest boo..

Towards a new Enlightenment Farewell to reason, progress and other philosophical myths Michael Hampe IAI 6th September 2021 Michael Hampe is | Professor for Philosophy at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich and author of What philosophy is for. Socrates’s legacy is one of philosophy as intervention and enlightenment of public life. Could contemporary academi..

For centuries, all philosophers seem to have done is question and debate. Why do philosophical problems resist solution? Chris Daly AEON 11 June, 2021 Chris Daly is professor of philosophy at the University of Manchester, UK. Philosophy seems to be on a hiding to nothing. It has a 2,500-year history in the West and an extensive back-catalogue – of problems. There are questions about what exists,..

The answer depends on how you respond to tragedy Joshua Foa Dienstag iai News Issue 96 30th April 2021 Joshua Foa Dienstag | Professor of Law at UCLA and author of Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit We know that every life contains a good deal of suffering. However, what counts is how we respond to it. Schopenhauer recommends a limiting of desire and resignation from life. While Nietzsche reco..

Foucault and the neoliberal state By Samuel Clowes Huneke The Point June 2, 2021 We just can’t seem to shake Foucault. The French philosopher, loathed or loved, has not dimmed in significance since his death of AIDS in 1984. In many ways the patron saint of contemporary humanistic inquiry, Michel Foucault’s work remains a source of both inspiration and frustration to scholars today. Conservative..

Last Men and Women Are some virtues casualties of progress? By George Scialabba Commonweal March 25, 2021 (Gremlin/Getty images) We all know Nietzsche’s parable of the last man. Certain that democracy, science, and secular humanism would definitively reshape civilization, Nietzsche—or more precisely, Zarathustra—asks what kind of human being would result. His answer, dripping with sarcasm and co..