Jobs bonanza as AI companies recruit philosophers • Researchers learn to ‘unwrap’ charred philosophy scrolls from Herculaneum — News reports by Anja Steinbauer Philosophy is emerging as an unlikely ...

Wendell O’Brien says, ‘Just Don’t Do It’. In a sense, every living person is always doing something – breathing, at least, or sitting in a chair – and even a dead man is lying in his tomb. There are ...

Seán Radcliffe asks, has Plato’s Allegory of the Cave been warning us of social media for 2,400 years? The ‘Allegory of the Cave’ is a Socratic argument recorded by the Greek philosopher Plato, a ...

Helena Moradi looks at changing philosophical attitudes to technology. The Greek word τέχνη, ‘techne’, which is usually translated as ‘art’, ‘craftsmanship’, ‘knowledge’, or ‘skill’, is generally used ...

Although ‘Time spent with cats is never wasted’ is a quote that social media popularly ascribes to Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), no one can trace this statement back to any documented source. In any case ...

While there remains no consensus on what dignity is, by far the most important and famous conception of it remains the classical liberal account developed by Immanuel Kant. The fame is well deserved, ...

Roy Schwartz examines whether the world’s first superhero really was inspired by Nietzsche’s ‘superior man’, and what the Nazis have to do with it. Superman is probably the most famous fictional ...

More Songs About Buildings and Food was the title of a 1978 album by the rock band Talking Heads. It was about all the things rock stars normally don’t sing about. Pop songs are usually about ...

Karen Parham explores the collection of curious concepts Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari use in their organic perception of reality. Becoming does not involve imitating or identifying with something ...

Laszlo Makay, George Marosan Jr. and David Vatai consider whether death destroys meaning or creates it. Unsurprisingly, people are obsessed with the meaning of their lives. Many also think that death ...

Patrick Stokes discusses some of the ethical problems arising in teaching ethics. In their (not infrequent) darker moments, academics have been known to observe wryly that students’ grandparents seem ...

Hegel’s philosophy of history is most lucidly set out in his Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, given at the University of Berlin in 1822, 1828 and 1830. In his introduction to those ...