Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago, and founder and Director of Chicago’s Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values. Angela Tan chatted with him ...

It started when I was a teenager, reading people like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus – all the usual existentialist types. I decided to study philosophy at the University of Essex, but not ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anja Steinbauer introduces the life and ideas of Immanuel Kant, the merry sage of Königsberg, who died 200 years ago. “Have the courage to use your own reason!”, (in Latin sapere aude!) is the battle ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...