Siobhan Lyons tries not to use either to explain what and why they are. As a schoolgirl in a Catholic Primary School, I often had to attend church. In W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage, the ...

Patrick Testa on the extraordinary hope offered by Viktor Frankl. Psychiatric illnesses are on the rise around the world, weighing heavily on health systems already presenting barriers to access.

While there remains no consensus on what dignity is, by far the most important and famous conception of it remains the classical liberal account developed by Immanuel Kant. The fame is well deserved, ...

The following answers to this key philosophical question each win a random book. It is clear that morality is a feature of humanity. However, if morality were objective then every member of our ...

Mark Cain on the 50th anniversary of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s death. April 29th was the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein is one the few genuinely ...

Donald Davidson’s theories about mind and language have been incredibly influential in shaping modern analytic philosophy. Giancarlo Marchetti recently asked him about his life and his ideas. I’d like ...

Peter Adamson spots some similarities between ancient Greek and ancient Indian philosophies. When you launch a podcast and book series promising to cover the history of philosophy ‘without any gaps’ ...

Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich, and a Philosophy Now columnist too. Amirali Maleki talks with him about Islamic philosophy. Was your main goal in ...

Philosophy Now interviews Jostein Gaarder, author of the best-selling history of philosophy, Sophie’s World. The surprise bestseller of the last year not only in Britain but in Germany and Scandinavia ...

Peter Adamson ponders the ancient ethics of happiness. These days, when students are first exposed to philosophical ethics, they are typically presented with three rival approaches. First, ...

Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Duanne Ribeiro chats with him about the history of ideas, and the meaning and methods of ...

In his new column Peter Adamson wonders what the ancient Greeks had to say about economics. It’s a rare philosophical argument that is actually decisive. Good thing too, since otherwise we ...