Adding philosophical depth to anything and everything
It shouldn’t be a political debate, but somehow it is. What should we as a society do in response to the Coronavirus pandemic? Seems obvious to anyone with any humanity: save people’s lives. Bizarrely, some feel we shouldn’t spend efforts […]
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Martin Buber on Encountering Others “When we encounter another individual truly as a person, not as an object for use, we become fully human.” – Martin Buber As a philosopher, my main research focus is on human relations, specifically the […]
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Are you an individual? Sounds like silly question, doesn’t it? You’re you, right? You aren’t anybody else. But it’s not quite that simple. First off, being good philosophers, we have to define our terms. What do we mean by “an […]
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Trevor Noah is a comedian, but in a deeply personal and thoughtful video released 30 May 2020, he is a philosopher. It’s wonderful. Seriously, it is a brilliant piece of philosophy. You can view it here and even if you […]
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Understanding Hegel. It is a bit of an exaggeration to say that in the last 100 or so years there has been a war in philosophy. But if we can describe the long “analytical/continental” divide in philosophy as a war, […]
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The UK recently observed the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote and the US will reach the century mark later this year. Still today, though, women are fighting to rectify the gender pay gap and gain full […]
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As philosophers, I believe we are charged above all with the need to not accept facts at face value, but to dig deeper to find the truth.
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Capitalism is an economic system that has both passionate defenders and fierce critics. But both sides in the debates over capitalism’s beneficial and harmful affects tend to conflate capitalism with free enterprise. Much of the defense of capitalism takes the […]
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Ever since Descartes published his book Meditations he has been accused of committing a fallacy of circular reasoning with his argument that God is the guarantor of the truth of our belief in an external world. Descartes’ argument has ever […]
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Philosopher Stanley Cavell is correct: we must understand that Nazis were not monsters. Ridiculous you say? Yes and no. We must first understand what evil is. Hear me out. “To understand Nazism, whatever that will mean, will be to understand […]
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