Philosophy

WE DO not let teenagers drive without a licence. Even though many can drive a car, driving is consequential enough to require structured preparation: knowledge of risks, demonstration of competence…

What is 'good' healthcare? Can we define and deliver it, or will we simply make things better for some people and worse for others? Bringing together the fields…

The Ethics of Immigrant Selection workshop Date: 22nd June, 2026 from 10:00 to 18:00 Location: London Road L22 G06 University of Reading, Reading Details: While the normative literature on migration…

AbstractThe activity is a one-day book symposium on Prof. Michael Beaney’s recently published (2026) research monograph on early Chinese philosophy, called “The Joy of Chinese Philosophy”. The aim of…

Philosophy, 2026

Methodological Nationalism is Not the (Best Articulation of the) Problem - Volume 100 Issue 3

Michael Beaney will discuss how Chinese philosophy helps us to uncover and interrogate some of the most basic assumptions of Western philosophy.

Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem

KNOW-HOW is a major research project funded by the European Research Council which develops a comprehensive framework for understanding know-how and its place in a wider web of concepts we rely on to…

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen invites submissions for its upcoming workshop, “Migration and Asylum in Scotland: A Philosophical Perspective”. This one-day workshop will…

This article makes the case for a deep epistemology, an epistemology rooted in the epistemic experiences and philosophical debates from across the full range of historical periods and global cultur...

This book introduces some central ideas and themes in ancient Chinese philosophy through a detailed analysis of one famous passage – the happy fish dialogue – in the Zhuangzi , one of the two…

Explore scholarships, bursaries and funding options at Aberdeen for undergraduate, postgraduate and international students to support your studies.

The LOE Centenary Project seeks to re-evaluate Wittgenstein’s 1929 Lecture on Ethics, and to reconsider its place in his thought about ethics, language, and education, its significance for…

Deflationism about group knowledge is the view that a group has knowledge if and only if most of its members have that knowledge. The case against deflationism has revolved around epistemic…

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According to knowledge-first epistemology, knowledge is irreducible to true belief plus something else, and yet knowledge entails belief. Moreover, knowledge plays an ineliminable role in causal ex...

Why Demagogues Lie Big

The topics of refugee protection and family migration have both received significant attention in the philosophical literature. However, until recently, issues at the intersection of these two…

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