Academic Dialogue Against the Background of War
A recent issue of Aeon featured an article entitled “The Missing Conversation,” with the subtitle, “To the detriment of the public, scientists and historians don’t engage...
Utopia, Dystopia, and Democracy: Teaching Philosophy in Wartime Ukraine
1. Introduction
Why teach philosophy in wartime Ukraine? It’s a fair question. It’s a necessary question. Given the variety and gravity of Ukraine’s urgent needs,...
Are Psychedelic Experiences Intrinsically Valuable?
Classic psychedelics, such as psilocybin and LSD, are currently being studied for their potential therapeutic impact—primarily in conjunction with some form of psychotherapy—on a...
Putin’s Use and Abuse of History as a Political Weapon
Introduction
To draw upon different strands of history for the purpose of creating, strengthening, or re-imagining a national narrative is not in itself problematic and,...
To Cancel or Not to Cancel? – Questioning the Russian Idea
Nine months after the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin delivered a speech in which he argued that although Western leaders always claim to be...
Loneliness and Philosophy: The Philosopher’s Approach to Loneliness
This post is part of a new series exploring philosophical perspectives on loneliness. If you are interested in contributing to this series, please submit...
Just War Theory and The Russia-Ukraine War
1. War, Unjust War, and Just War
There are three wars currently in progress in Ukraine: the war between Russia and Ukraine, the Russian war...
Against the Odds: Defending Defensive Wars
Introduction
Peace is better than war. It takes two to fight. These are truisms: they’re true, but so obvious that they’re not usually worth stating....
The End of the Universe
I have been thinking about time inversion and looked more carefully into arrow of time reversal experiments like the one published in Nature in...
Thinking About Freedom in Wartime Ukraine
In this article, Timothy Snyder recounts his meeting with President Zelensky shortly after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and Snyder explores the...