Articles What Simone de Beauvoir Got – And Didn’t Get – About Motherhood Nura Hossainzadeh argues that motherhood is both physical and transcendent. It is often said that becoming a parent is a ...

Editorial AI Think Therefore AI Am by Rick Lewis “To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a computer.” Anon. We are caught between heaven and hell. The skies are full of portents of ...

Articles Young & Meaningful Elise Beal notes a Japanese philosophy of finding pleasure in the small things, and matches it with an online trend. “Our generation is so screwed.” I hear it everywhere on ...

Humour The Functions of Humor in Writing Omar Sabbagh contemplates the use of humor, in fiction, and in life. My work as a novelist and short story writer inevitably involves plenty of moments in ...

Humour Is Laughter Liberating or Cruel? Alfie Bown investigates different categories of laughter. Comedy has become a pressure point for contemporary culture. It flares up in debates about censorship, ...

Articles Welcome to the Civilization of the Liar’s Paradox Slavoj Žižek uncovers political paradoxes of lying. The so-called Liar Paradox – statements like ‘everything I say is false’ – has been ...

Philosophy Shorts Philosophers on Holidays by Matt Qvortrup ‘More songs about Buildings and Food’ was the title of a 1978 album by the rock band Talking Heads. It was about all the things rock stars ...

Perhaps unshockingly for someone who is an actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer, Stephen Fry has a deep interest in words and how we use them. After hearing him lecture on that ...

The Art of Living The Importance of the Purple Massimo Pigliucci looks for threads of integrity in a morally compromised world. In the tumultuous political landscape of ancient Rome, few stories ...

Digital Philosophy Studying Smarter with AI? Max Gottschlich on sense and nonsense when using AI in academia. Artificial intelligence is becoming an ubiquitous companion in our lives and institutions.

Digital Philosophy Ethics for the Age of AI Mahmoud Khatami asks, can machines make good moral decisions? Imagine a self-driving car speeding down a narrow road when suddenly a child runs into its ...

Digital Philosophy Affirmative Action for Androids Jimmy Alfonso Licon asks, when should we prioritise android rights? We should begin examining the question of whether there should be affirmative ...