Philosopher's Zone

Friedrich Nietzsche is a difficult figure to pin down politically. He's popularly known as... more

What can Antarctica teach us about statehood and sovereignty? The continent has no governm... more

What if your government decided what 'the good life' looks like, then rewarded you for liv... more

One of the more utopian promises of technology has always been that it will free us from t... more

Australian feminist philosopher Kate Manne memorably coined the term "himpathy" to describ... more

If someone's behaving badly, it can be hard to know how much of their behaviour stems from... more

Western feminists often express support for women in Muslim majority countries, but someti... more

If I pick up a tree branch and smash your window with it, you're going to be angry, and yo... more

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