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Is This Real Life? Do We Live in a Computer Simulation or Not?

Is This Real Life? Do We Live in a Computer Simulation or Not?

Sabine Hossenfelder Addresses a Burning Question (For Some)

By Sabine Hossenfelder | August 11, 2022

Between Fact and Fable: Historical Fiction or Nonfictional Novel?

Between Fact and Fable: Historical Fiction or Nonfictional Novel?

Clayton Wickham on the Imagined Histories of Danielle Dutton and Benjamin Labatut

By Clayton Wickham | May 31, 2022

Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime

Divinely-Inspired Art: John Higgs on William Blake’s Visions of the Sublime

“Perhaps more than any visionary before or since, Blake had the creative skill to express what he experienced.”

By John Higgs | May 13, 2022

When Iris Murdoch Met Jean-Paul Sartre

When Iris Murdoch Met Jean-Paul Sartre

Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman on a Chance Encounter Between a Young Novelist and an Aging Philosopher

By Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman | May 11, 2022

The Dust of Ancient Suns: Making Art and Meaning From the Depths of Deep Time

The Dust of Ancient Suns: Making Art and Meaning From the Depths of Deep Time

David Farrier on the Work of Katie Paterson

By David Farrier | May 6, 2022

How to Nurture the Philosopher in All Our Kids

How to Nurture the Philosopher in All Our Kids

Scott Hershovitz in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 4, 2022

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Robert M. Pirsig on the Book He Wrote (And the One He Didn’t)

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What Does It Mean to Understand Pain?

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Against (the Very Idea of) Procrastination

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On T.M. Scanlon's “Quick-Start Guide” to Ethical Living

By Michael Schur | March 24, 2022

Mary-Frances O’Connor Recommends Readings for the Grieving Brain

Mary-Frances O’Connor Recommends Readings for the Grieving Brain

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By Mary-Frances O’Connor | February 1, 2022

Finding Something Deeply Personal in the Philosophical Novel"> Stories vs Ideas: <br

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David Hollander on Fiction as an Alternative to Silence

By David Hollander | January 13, 2022

In Literature, Considering Love as Both Attention and Absorption

In Literature, Considering Love as Both Attention and Absorption

Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko on Iris Murdoch, Cormac McCarthy, and the Cultivation of Love

By Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko | January 4, 2022

What the Stoics Understood About Death (And Can Teach Us)

What the Stoics Understood About Death (And Can Teach Us)

David Fideler on What Awareness of Mortality Does to a Life

By David Fideler | December 16, 2021

On Albert Camus’s Legendary Postwar Speech at Columbia University

On Albert Camus’s Legendary Postwar Speech at Columbia University

“The years we have gone through have killed something in us.”

By Robert Meagher | November 10, 2021

How Ancient Chinese Philosophical Frameworks Dictated the Politics of Water

How Ancient Chinese Philosophical Frameworks Dictated the Politics of Water

Giulio Boccaletti on the Confucian View of the Yellow River and the Unification of China

By Giulio Boccaletti | September 17, 2021

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