A comic by Corey Mohler about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Side note: The existentialists in this episode are philosopher, novelist and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre ...

Each discussion led by Peter Green, retired UEA philosophy lecturer.

José Zalabardo investigates which problem Wittgenstein is trying to solve. For many contemporary interpreters of the Tractatus, its ultimate goal is not to answer philosophical questions or solve ...

Tim Wilkinson on the physics & philosophy of parallel universes. In his 1895 essay Is Life Worth Living? the American philosopher William James wrote, “Truly, all we know of good and duty proceeds ...

Some say that one of the main differences between science and philosophy is that science makes progress while philosophers go round in circles endlessly discussing the same questions. Toni Vogel Carey ...

Georgia Arkell compares logotherapy and atheistic existentialism. Both born in 1905, Viktor Frankl and Jean-Paul Sartre were two of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers about the human ...

Ray Boisvert on Albert Camus, Thomas Merton and a call to be a healer in a crisis. Self-isolating and bored? Reading helps. Across the pandemic-tinged globe one book is flying off shelves: The Plague ...

Mark Daniels introduces a whole millenium of ideas. Let us start by considering three points. First, medieval philosophy came from a period when philosophy was under attack: the proponents of ...

Michael Mocatta finds a practical aid for recovery from addiction in a philosophy of extreme experience. Georges Bataille (1897-1962) had a difficult childhood. In this article I will seek to explain ...

In his Introduction to Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1837), Hegel argues that there are three ways of doing history. The first of these is original history. Original history refers to ...

In Issue 44, Peter Williams claimed to have found numerous logical fallacies in the writings of Richard Dawkins. His article has provoked this blow-by-blow response from Massimo Pigliucci, Joshua ...

The Mathematical Universe Hypothesis has a very philosophical nature to it. It can be considered a form of Platonism, the philosophy of Plato, who argued that certain abstract ideas have a real ...