Criticisms of so-called woke culture have become a battle cry for the right, and have gained voter support in recent elections. But what were its origins, is it now over, and what might replace it?

In our everyday experience, time is an inescapable backdrop against which events unfold, allowing us to sequence events and measure durations. Yet in the hundred years since Einstein's theory of ...

Judith Butler, pioneering gender theorist whose changed the way we think about gender and sexuality, explores the topic of their most recent book, Who's Afraid of Gender? (March 2024). Butler offers a ...

Every time the modern world feels like it's hit rock bottom, we drop further. For many, our current political climate is evidence that the world as we knew it is gone. But for radical philosopher ...

Donald Hoffman famously argues that we know nothing about the truth of the world. His book, The Case Against Reality, claims the process of survival of the fittest does not require a true picture of ...

What can philosophy learn from studying the senses? Barry C Smith is a philosophy professor, director of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, and is on ...

How is Stoicism misunderstood by its popularisers? Stoicism, a school of thought originating in Ancient Greece, is one of the world's oldest philosophies. Yet it has enjoyed something of a resurgence ...

Once neck and neck with Boris Johnson in the leadership race for the Conservative party, Rory Stewart sought to blaze a new socially liberal trend within conservative politics. But how did come to his ...

We worry that AI will spread misinformation, but the real problem runs deeper: AI is incapable of telling the truth at all. Philosophers Bun-Sun Kim and Hongjoon Jo draw on Foucault and Heidegger to ...

The sense of an enduring, unified self is an illusion. Many have sought to divide the self into separate parts. From Aristotle's distinction between the rational and irrational self to Freud's ...

Described as 'Orban's right-hand man', Frank Furedi is a political philosopher at the heart of the culture war. With a storied career studying fear, populism, and identity, Frank's recent work has ...

The most astonishing result in the history of physics, Bell's theorem, proves 'spooky action at a distance' that Einstein and most physicists reject for fear of embracing ideas that defy common sense.