The ghost that haunts Martin Heidegger’s collected works – particularly the early ones leading up to his 1927 magnum opus Being and Time – is Dasein. That is his word for human being. So, gentle ...

Islam & Philosophy Life Sacrifice Yossra Hamouda on the murder of compassion & the act of mass murder. When I was a child, I used to see the hand-prints stained in blood over wall ...

Articles Is Comedy Good for Us? Damaris Stock has a laugh with Plato and friends. Most people would admit that without comedy ...

What does it mean to love? Is to be loved really to be known? Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-1273 CE), an eminent poet and mystic from the Sufi tradition, would vehemently disagree. Rumi would argue ...

Could machines think? Yes, in a sense, they do already. Impressively. But could machines experience and feel? Only God knows. And perhaps that’s the point. The prayer I prayed is the prayer Claude ...

We human beings are social animals. We crave friendship, relationship, reputation, intimacy. These cravings helped our ...

Structuralism arose on the continent, in particular in France, in the early 60s. The first ‘big name’ was Claude Lévi-Strauss, an anthropologist, who took on Jean-Paul Sartre, the leading French ...

The mind-body problem has remained essentially unchanged since Descartes put it forward in 1641. The problem is: what is the nature of the conscious mind, and how does it relate to the body? Today, ...

Alan Haworth on Karl Popper, his vision of a pragmatic, liberal society, and his assessment of its philosophical enemies. It is now one hundred years since the birth of Karl Popper, and almost sixty ...

Daniel Kaufman sees philosophy ailing as a guide for Western culture, and considers how it might be revived. Among the humanities, philosophy is particularly dependent on its place in the Academy.

Jeremiah Conway says that philosophy is profoundly useless but incredibly worthwhile. Anyone who has taught or studied philosophy is familiar with the question. It is a standard question of ...

Have you ever wondered whether everyone talks about you behind your back? Whether they are all keeping something from you? John McGuire discusses the Cartesian nightmare that is The Truman Show. Every ...