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Philosophy

July 2024

  • A woman sitting on a bench among trees in autumn

    What is ‘nature’? Dictionaries urged to include humans in definition

    Defining nature as separate from people perpetuates troubled relationship with the natural world, say campaigners
  • people celebrate at a concert, with one person crowdsurfing

    ‘How many aura points did I lose?’ The new coolness currency has hints of Aristotle

    Young people are evaluating good and bad life decisions on a scale and seeking input from others. To philosophy experts, it sounds familiar
  • ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY - press film still - Orlando trio

    ‘The teachers would refer to boys, girls – and you’: trans philosopher Paul B Preciado on reinventing Orlando

    He was mentored by Jacques Derrida, and his memoir about taking hormones broke new ground. Now, Preciado’s radical cinematic riff on Virginia Woolf’s novel explores a life spent defying the gender binary

June 2024

  • A bristlecone pine tree, one of the oldest living organisms on Earth. Photograph: Piriya Photography/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy? – podcast

  • Jeremy Bentham’s skeleton and wax head is on display at UCL in London.

    ‘He had a sarcastic turn of phrase’: discovery of 1509 book sheds new light on ‘father of utilitarianism’

May 2024

  • woman walking on pavement

    Making sense of it
    The walking cure: when an injury forced me to slow down, I learned that we can only amble our way to wisdom

    Justine Toh
  • AC Grayling, philosopher and writer at home in South London .

    10 Chaotic Questions
    AC Grayling: ‘Who would I like to fight? Boris Johnson. And I’d win’

April 2024

  • The philosopher Nick Bostrom in Oxford

    ‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute

  • A bristlecone pine tree, one of the oldest living organisms on Earth.

    The long read
    Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?

  • Daniel Dennett in Stockholm, 2017. He defined his project as ‘figuring out as a philosopher how brains could be, or support, or explain, or cause, minds’

    Daniel Dennett obituary

  • White man in grey sweater in front of whiteboard

    Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher

  • German university rescinds Jewish American’s job offer over pro-Palestinian letter

  • The mysteries of near-death experiences

March 2024

  • Thoughtful woman with hand on chin looking up

    Notes and queries
    Readers reply: is it possible to think about nothing?

    The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

February 2024

  • The Thinker by Auguste Rodin

    Notes and queries
    Is it possible to think about nothing?

    The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

January 2024

  • A woman leaning on the kitchen table with fried eggs over her eyes. There are whole eggs on the table, which has a gingham yellow cloth on it

    ‘Don’t do’ lists and a protein hit: 20 ways to become a morning person and feel like a winner

    Early risers know only too well the smug satisfaction of getting up and getting going. But what if you’re more of an owl than a lark? Here’s how to change your body clock and seize the day
  • The tomb of Karl Marx in Highgate cemetery, London.

    Brief letters
    Is now the time for Karl Marx’s resurrection?

    Brief letters: Dancing on Marx’s grave | Multi-faith peace march | Men’s underwear | Scallop or Scollop? | Baffle over waffle

    • Notebook
      If a firm’s mission mantra includes words like ‘trust’, be alarmed: just look at Fujitsu’s

      Tim Adams

    • I am fortunate in many ways and I complain a lot – I believe it’s my duty to do so

      Daniel Gregory

    • Making sense of it
      How do you bring your spiritual self to your job and make sure you are doing more good than harm?

      Jackie Bailey
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