Philosopher's Zone

Cultural Marxism is many things to many people — at one end of the political spectrum, it'... more

The great German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who died in March, wrote in his later works ... more

When it comes to the ideal philosophical medium, most of us would identify the written wor... more

Ever since AI was founded in the 1950s, people have talked and written about 'intelligence... more

GWF Hegel (1770-1831) wanted to construct nothing less than a complete explanation of real... more

Philosophers have traditionally thought of grief as something that attaches to immediate l... more

There's something about space that's always captured the human imagination, but what happe... more

Commercial surrogacy - the practice of paying someone to gestate your child and then hand ... more

The traditional philosophical view of belief is that it's a rational cognitive affair, evi... more

Collins Dictionary made "permacrisis" their word of the year in 2022 - a prescient choice ... more

Elite sport is traditionally a celebration of the human, but for how much longer? We watch... more

Why are we so repelled yet fascinated by bodily waste? Today we're talking purity, polluti... more

There's a certain kind of question that raises suspicion as to the motives of the person a... more

To call the effects of a fire, flood or cyclone these days a 'natural' disaster only tells... more

Behind the familiar Buddhist doctrine that "there is no self" lies a centuries-long tradit... more

There are certain things about the world that we think we know for sure, and yet philosoph... more

Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) is often described as an arch capitalist, the ... more

Artificial intelligence is beginning to revolutionise many aspects of human existence - bu... more

It's often claimed that the Enlightenment was a time when Europeans awoke from their super... more

Speech acts - utterances that have the power to make things happen in the world - are incr... more

Caring for a terminally ill person can place huge pressure - financial, emotional, physica... more

The supposed evils of postmodern culture have been endlessly catalogued: moral relativism,... more