Philosopher's Zone

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

Is it possible to have judgement without blame? And what does it mean to say - as Socrates... more

We routinely refer to "the unconscious" in a way that suggests we all agree on what it mea... more

Buddhism in the West is often thought of as an ethical or philosophical system first and f... more

Analytic philosophy has often understood itself as being in some sense "above" history - u... more

Medical diagnosis these days is not as straightforward as it seems. Doctors still diagnose... more

Nationalism is often associated with rightwing politics and anti-immigration sentiment - b... more