Philosopher's Zone

Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679-1749) is best known as a contemporary and defender of Joh... more

Reading seems like a simple, uncomplicated activity that most of us enjoy without thinking... more

It's been said that the work of the 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer sh... more

The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme exposed a system that unfairly (and ill... more

There's an app for everything these days, including parenting and childrearing - but at wh... more

Democracy is a powerful force for progress, but it's also vulnerable and beset by its own ... more

Conservation is the name of the game in most ecological thinking - but in the eyes of some... more

Are you troubled by the way that social media has enabled the spread of propaganda? Well, ... more

As an academic discipline, Australian literature has been a largely white affair, with the... more

Living and writing through the years before, during and after the Second World War, French... more

Beauty apps are becoming more and more miraculously high-tech, but also more and more inva... more

Babies cry, smile, laugh and react to their environment - so it seems odd to look at a bab... more

If there's one thing AI has in common with all new technology, it's that a lot of people a... more

Most of us have Male or Female registered on our birth certificates - but what does this c... more

It's easy to say that people who hold extreme antisocial beliefs should be held responsibl... more

The 2019 bushfires that devastated the east coast of Australia had one upside: the smoke i... more

When it comes to global problems like climate change, it can be easy to feel as though you... more

Digestive disorders are a common source of distress and social anxiety - which might seem ... more

When someone complains about feeling pressure to use 'woke' language, their discomfort is ... more

We tend to think of time as a universal experience, something that carries us all along in... more

Once upon a time, what we now call scientists were known as "natural philosophers". These ... more