Question of the Month What Is The Nature Of Reality? The following readers’ answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book. What’s the problem? Isn’t it enough that things are ...

Simone de Beauvoir Becoming A Woman: Simone de Beauvoir on Female Embodiment Felicity Joseph finds that sometimes it’s hard to become a woman. “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman” Simone de ...

William Rowe is a professor of philosophy at Purdue University. Though an atheist, he spends much of his working life thinking about God. Nick Trakakis recently chatted with him about God and evil and ...

Articles The Gods of Spinoza & Teilhard de Chardin Derek Harrison compares radically alternative visions of the absolute. “I saw eternity the other night. Like a great ring of pure and endless light.” ...

Articles Nietzsche on Love Willow Verkerk considers what Nietzsche has to teach us about love. What could Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) have to teach us about love? More than we might suppose.

Zombies & Philosophy The Zombie Threat to a Science of Mind Philip Goff discusses a thought-experiment about consciousness. For the last five hundred years or so physics has been doing extraordinarily ...

Articles The Last Messiah The first English version of a classic essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, originally published in Janus #9, 1933. Translated from the Norwegian by Gisle R. Tangenes. One night in ...

Articles Darwin Meets Socrates Steve Stewart-Williams on the implications of evolutionary theory for ethics. “Morality is a collective illusion of the genes. We need to believe in morality, and so, ...

Articles The Death of Postmodernism And Beyond Alan Kirby says postmodernism is dead and buried. In its place comes a new paradigm of authority and knowledge formed under the pressure of new ...

Question of the Month What Is The Meaning Of Life? The following answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book. Sorry if your answer doesn’t appear: we received enough to fill ...

Continental Thoughts A Radical Cure: Hannah Arendt & Simone Weil on the Need for Roots Scott Remer thinks we arendt happy without a community and considers the complete reconstruction of the modern ...

Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Here he chats with Thiago Pinho about his work on the metaphysics of objects, which led to ...