In “What’s the Value of Mountaineering?”, Suleyman Moollan explores how climbing cultivates virtues such as courage, perseverance, and resilience: philosophynow.org/issues/174/W...

These "talmudic words" (according to Anaïs Nin) echo one of Kant's central insights: we never encounter reality as completely neutral observers. Patrick Cannon explains why in Kant at the Bar, a reader's all-time favourite PN piece: philosophynow.org/issues/95/Ka...

Should controversial thinkers and ideas be published? In our latest issue, Philosophy Now published an interview with Antonio Negri (1933-2023), one of the most influential and controversial Marxist philosophers of recent decades: philosophynow.org/issues/174/A...

From Russian Cosmism to life extension and space exploration, Andy Yee explores a radical possibility: that transcending death and humanity's expansion into the cosmos may be two sides of the same ambition. Can science defeat death - and should it? philosophynow.org/issues/174/I...

Our reader Jon Sheppard (in response to another reader) argues that philosophical inspiration can be found anywhere, and should be looked for everywhere. What do you think: is there anything that can’t be philosophical? Reader letters: philosophynow.org/issues/174/L...

In The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, the apprentice enchants a broomstick, but doesn’t know how to make it stop. A cautionary tale for the age of AI? Frank S. Robinson reviews Harari’s Nexus for Philosophy Now: philosophynow.org/issues/174/N...

Insightful description of politics, or a dangerous way to think about it? Marco Pandolfini revisits controversial legal theorist Carl Schmitt, whose ideas continue to influence debates on politics, sovereignty and liberal democracy: philosophynow.org/issues/174/C...

When a genetically enhanced villain in Star Trek: Enterprise quotes Nietzsche, is he misunderstanding the philosopher, or taking his ideas to their logical conclusion? philosophynow.org/issues/174/S...

"I could interrogate every person who ever existed... It would be paradise!" Each week, Corey Mohler draws a new @existentialcomics.com . We publish one in every issue of Philosophy Now. This issue features the one that reimagines the last minutes of Socrates' life.

In Why Sport Needs Good & Evil (issue 174), Kola Adeosun & Ato Kenya Rockcliffe explore why rivalry often takes on a moral dimension: philosophynow.org/issues/174/W...

What if ethics begins not with rules, but with the way we speak to one another? Jürgen Habermas believed that mutual recognition is built into genuine communication. Matt Qvortrup recalls his "Breakfast with Habermas" in issue 174: philosophynow.org/issues/174/B...

"Past the sell by date! But it could be fine? Or the end of me...." Cartoon by Juno Browning for the latest issue of Philosophy Now

Does death diminish life, or define it? Joshua Clements explores Corey Anton's metaphor of death as life's picture frame, drawing on Gregory Bateson, Epictetus and Albert Camus to ask whether mortality is what gives life its meaning: philosophynow.org/issues/174/D...

Should a thinker's moral failures change how we engage with their ideas? History is full of brilliant minds with deeply flawed lives. Tony Shenton argues that refusing to celebrate someone does not entail refusing to study them: philosophynow.org/issues/174/G...

Avishai Margalit argues that a compromise becomes "rotten" when it institutionalises humiliation. Political necessity may justify many things, but not treating people as less than moral equals. But is humiliation a clear enough criterion? Read in issue 174: philosophynow.org/issues/174/M...

"Death is tragic because it eliminates everything that would have followed in life." Jimmy Licon explores Don Marquis' influential "future like ours" anti-abortion argument and its surprising implications for eggs, chickens, and moral consistency: philosophynow.org/issues/174/M...

This month we're celebrating 20 years of Philosophy Now editor Grant Bartley 🎉 Grant is also the author of the philosophical fiction story The Tragic Destiny of Life on Earth, featured in our current issue: philosophynow.org/issues/174/T...

Ancient Greece's guide to living well here. Massimo Pigliucci argues that all three Delphic injunctions are really about knowing your limits. Today, is respecting your limits wisdom, or surrender? philosophynow.org/issues/174/T...

If someone offered you immortality, would you accept? In Who Wants to Live Forever?, Dan Pollen explores Williams's challenge and the philosophers who think he may be wrong: philosophynow.org/issues/174/W...

The new issue of Philosophy Now is JUST OUT. If death is inevitable, does that diminish life's meaning and value - or create them? Issue 174 explores mortality, immortality, antinatalism, ethics, Camus, Hannah Arendt, Star Trek, and more: philosophynow.org

At a recent talk on common sense, Anja Steinbauer discussed Hannah Arendt's idea that common sense is what allows us to inhabit a shared world. If so, meaningful disagreement depends on common ground. How much shared reality is needed for genuine debate?

Which philosopher would you pack for the beach? Our reader Steven Kent chooses Epicurus, celebrated by the followers on the 20th of each month - today. More featured reader letters: philosophynow.org/issues/173/L...

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Can knowledge exist without belief? Or is it a logical impossibility? In his philosophical review of Nosferatu, Ștefan Bolea explores reason, the unknown, Romanticism, Expressionism, and the darker corners of human experience: philosophynow.org/issues/173/N...

Is there a difference between legal permission and ethically meaningful consent? And what about collecting and reselling user data - normal business practice or a breach of privacy and trust? J.C. Michaels explores in "Code of Conduct" (philofiction): philosophynow.org/issues/173/C...

If you found a watch on a beach, you’d assume it had a maker. So if nature is far more complex than a watch, does it too require a designer? William Paley’s famous “watchmaker argument” still fuels debates about God, design, and evolution: philosophynow.org/issues/173/W...

Anders Wallin argues that strong welfare societies reduce the need for people to turn their lives into exhausting meaning-seeking projects. A humane society is one where most people can live decent, balanced, “unheroic” lives - think Scandinavian model: philosophynow.org/issues/173/L...

We all play multiple roles, shaped by our nature, circumstances, and decisions. The Stoics thought the challenge is to perform each well - not collapse them into one identity. Read Massimo Pigliucci's "Four Roles That Shape Life" in issue 173: philosophynow.org/issues/173/F...

Is philosophy of any use for real life conflict resolution - what's your experience? 🤔 Cartoon by Mike Shiell (issue 173)

A new Hackett edition of On Liberty now credits Harriet Taylor Mill as co-author. But when is it justified to revise authorship, and on what grounds? Where do we draw the line between influence, contribution, and authorship? More philosophy news: philosophynow.org/issues/173/N...