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“Conceptual isolation” offers an agreeable solution.

If you want to be an authentic person, embrace reality. Don’t try to clamber your way up Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

When boredom creeps in, many of us turn to social media. But that may be preventing us from reaching a transformative level of boredom.

Is there an ultimate answer to the age-old question?

How we handle grief largely depends on our worldview. Here is how three famous philosophers handled the certainty of grief and despair.

Sight helps you see a room, but interoception lets you sense it from inside your own body.

Studies show that feelings of ease and comfort in a given situation are tied to feelings of authenticity.

Being mortal makes life so much sweeter.

From consciousness to nothingness and beyond, these questions still baffle the brightest minds. Will they ever be solved?

The question of anti-Semitism, Nazism, and a particularly nasty sibling haunted Nietzsche’s legacy.

Our temporal experience of the world is not divided into a series of neat segments, yet that’s how we talk about time.

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As a doctor, I am reminded every day of the fragility of the human body, how closely mortality lurks just around the corner.

God has a twitter account, and it is full of hilarity as well as deep insights.

You are going to die. So am I. These are facts.

Will primetime philosophy work on German TV? 

There are many famous schools of thought that you have probably heard of, but did you hear the truth or just get a caricature of the idea? 

The “Philosopher-King” of comedy is Louis C.K. You may know his work, but you might not realize there is some serious philosophy behind some of the best jokes.

The work of Kremlin-approved philosopher Alexander Dugin provides key insights on the longterm strategy behind Russian hacks of the American elections. 

Many smart folk need to relearn what Trump knows, and Aristotle taught, about persuasion. Logic and facts alone often don’t persuade. 

Finding direct links between Buddhism and Western philosophy is a difficult task, but they do play out in strange loops.

Objective truth is fine if we want to know the weather conditions, but to live as a human in a human society, a more nuanced approach is needed to knowledge and understanding.

“Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.”

The Merriam-Webster people have named SCIENCE the word of the year. Why?  It had “the greatest increase in look-ups” in the online version of their dictionary.  This data might be […]

“Education isn’t about knowledge, it’s about privilege.Would we know about Hannah Arendt had she not studied under Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers? Let me be more specific, education is about the privilege […]

“And so is the type of great men that shaped European history a very particular figure: half warrior, half statesman…” –Richard Wilhelm, 1922. MOST scholars believe themselves to be a […]

So my class on technology is beginning to consider skeptical views of the transformative possibilities of biotechnology. One comes from those who say that the evolutionary understanding of nature explains […]

Walter, we hardly knew you. When I saw that American artist Walter De Maria had died at the age of 77 on July 25th, my mind’s eye immediate pictured The […]

Someone might say—and libertarians skeptics often do—that classes in philosophy and literature are given a quite an arbitrarily inflated value by according them credit. Do away with the credit system […]

Martin Heidegger called Socrates “the purest thinker” in the West, which, I gather, doesn’t necessarily mean the best thinker. The sign of Socrates’ purity is not writing down his thoughts, […]