Norman Schultz wonders when working is wrong. [Issue 170: October/November 2025] This site uses cookies to recognize users and allow us to analyse site usage. By continuing to browse the site with ...

The ambition for de-extinction resonates with transhumanism – a movement that champions using technology to enhance human, ...

We should all live according to Nature. No, I don’t mean that we should run naked into the forest and hug trees (though there’s nothing necessarily wrong with that). I mean that if we want to be happy ...

Eva Cybulska dispells popular misconceptions about this controversial figure. “Man is a rope, fastened between animal and Übermensch – a rope over an abyss.” For Nietzsche, the idea of Übermensch was ...

Paul Doolan attends to our culture of attention demanding. ‘Listen’ is composed of the same letters as ‘silent’. Listening to another person means falling silent while the other speaks, opening ...

Michael D. McGranahan takes us to the edge of language, mathematics and science. There are things we can never know. There are questions that have no answer. There will always be uncertainty. People ...

The following answers to this artful question each win a random book. Art is something we do, a verb. Art is an expression of our thoughts, emotions, intuitions, and desires, but it is even more ...

Paul Doolan tries to tell them apart. Movie director Ridley Scott is known for creating an authentic cinematic world within each of his films. The battle scenes in his newest blockbuster, Napoleon, ...

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 ...

Ben G. Yacobi asks if it is possible to live authentically. We are told: “To thine own self be true!” But what do we mean if we say that somebody is an authentic person, or a very genuine person?

Omid Panahi finds that finding a solution is not the problem. The Trolley Problem is a thought experiment first devised by the Oxford moral philosopher Philippa Foot in 1967. In her paper titled ‘The ...

Shakespeare never met Wittgenstein, Russell, or Ryle, and one wonders what a conversation between them would have been like. “What’s in a name, you ask?” Wittgenstein might answer “A riddle of symbols ...