Anja Steinbauer introduces the life and ideas of Immanuel Kant, the merry sage of Königsberg, who died 200 years ago. “Have the courage to use your own reason!”, (in Latin sapere aude!) is the battle ...

Articles The Limits of Authenticity Ben G. Yacobi asks if it is possible to live authentically. We are told: “To thine own self be true!” But what do we mean if we say that somebody is an authentic ...

Articles Being and Becoming Christopher Macann explains the basis of his ‘genetic’ system of phenomenology. In Raphael’s painting The School of Athens, we see an elderly Plato pointing upward and a ...

Articles A Philosophical History of Transhumanism John Kennedy Philip goes deep into the search for (post-) human heights. Throughout our history, we human beings have been trying to transform ...

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 ...

Articles What Did Mary Know? Marina Gerner on a thought experiment about consciousness. Imagine a girl called Mary. She is a brilliant neuroscientist and a world expert on colour vision. But because ...

Articles Education versus Training City, Liverpool John Moore, Swansea, Northampton ... once again university philosophy departments across Britain are closing or under threat. Peter Rickman makes the ...

Hegel & History Hegel, ‘The Father of Art History’? Michael Squire scrutinises Hegel’s historical ideas about aesthetics. Mention the name ‘Hegel’ among art historians, and you’ll likely be met with a ...

Articles Kant and the Thing in Itself Ralph Blumenau on why things may not be what they seem to be. Before Kant, philosophers had divided propositions into two kinds, under the technical names of ...

Films There Will Be Blood Terri Murray tells us about a Hollywood hero beyond good and evil. If Hollywood genre movies can be depended upon to deliver one thing, it is a good hero pitted against an ...

Heresy Phenomenology as a Mystical Discipline Colin Wilson explores the more provocative side of existentialism. In the following essay I propose to argue that Husserl’s phenomenology has been ...

Articles Philosophical Misanthropy Ian James Kidd takes a look at humanity through dark glasses. The condemnation of humankind is very topical these days. Given the global environmental crisis, the ...