essay
Comparative philosophy
Folklore is philosophy
Both folktales and formal philosophy unsettle us into thinking anew about our cherished values and views of the world
Abigail Tulenko
essay
Comparative philosophy
Forging philosophy
A 17th-century classic of Ethiopian philosophy might be a fake. Does it matter, or is that just how philosophy works?
Jonathan Egid
essay
Comparative philosophy
How to become wise
Practice is at the heart of Korean philosophy. In order to lead a good life, hone your daily rituals of self-cultivation
Kevin Cawley
essay
Metaphysics
We are interwoven beings
A dragon needs the clouds and the wind in order to fly. What happens when we too relinquish individualistic reasoning?
Mercedes Valmisa
essay
Comparative philosophy
Medieval but not Christian
It’s shocking that histories of medieval philosophy celebrate only Christian thinkers, ignoring Islamic and Jewish thought
Yitzhak Y Melamed
idea
History of ideas
The adversarial culture in philosophy does not serve the truth
Martin Lenz
essay
Thinkers and theories
Pragmatism endures
Pragmatism was not eclipsed after Dewey: it has been a constant and dominant force in philosophy for nearly 100 years
Cheryl Misak & Robert B Talisse
video
Thinkers and theories
A Buddhist monk probes Heidegger on the limits, and necessity, of philosophy
16 minutes
essay
Thinkers and theories
The American Aristotle
Charles Sanders Peirce was a brilliant philosopher, mathematician and scientist. His polymathic work should be better known
Daniel Everett
essay
Thinkers and theories
Marxism and Buddhism
Life is suffering, whether you sit under a Bodhi Tree or stand with the workers. But do the two schools agree on the remedy?
Adrian Kreutz
idea
Thinkers and theories
Ibn Tufayl and the story of the feral child of philosophy
Marwa Elshakry & Murad Idris
essay
Thinkers and theories
Australian philosophy
Despite its reputation as remote and anti-intellectual, Australia has exercised a surprisingly deep influence on philosophy
Peter Godfrey-Smith
idea
Beauty and aesthetics
Tidying up is not joyful but another misuse of Eastern ideas
Amy Olberding
idea
Global history
Don’t let the rise of Europe steal world history
Peter Frankopan
essay
Philosophy of mind
Buddhism and self-deception
How can I logically manage to deceive myself? Buddhist thought offers a way out of the philosophical paradox
Katie Javanaud
idea
Technology and the self
Modern technology is akin to the metaphysics of Vedanta
Akhandadhi Das
essay
Religion
Breath of life
Shinto is uniquely Japanese, yet embodies a once-universal animistic religion of wind and fire, gods and animal spirits
Brian Victoria
essay
Comparative philosophy
First women of philosophy
Philosophy was once a woman’s world, ranging across Asia, Africa and Latin America. It’s time to reclaim that lost realm
Dag Herbjørnsrud
idea
Thinkers and theories
How Al-Farabi drew on Plato to argue for censorship in Islam
Rashmee Roshan Lall
classic
Philosophy of religion
A funhouse mirror for the soul
Alan Jay Levinovitz
essay
History of ideas
A truly African philosophy
‘Consolation philosophy’ understands the human being as a unity of feeling and reason, in a cosmos rich with primal emotion
Ada Agada
idea
Philosophy of religion
The Buddhist monk who became an apostle for sexual freedom
Donald S Lopez Jr
essay
Ethics
Life on the slippery Earth
Aztec moral philosophy has profound differences from the Greek tradition, not least its acceptance that nobody is perfect
Sebastian Purcell
classic
Comparative philosophy
The philosophy of Mexicanness
Carlos Alberto Sánchez & Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr