An incisive and witty philosophical guide to how we can make sense of ourselves and other peopleHow do we really come to ‘understand’ others—or even to...

The author and academic explains how an open, questioning mindset can bring people with opposing views closer together – and even change history

How to avoid the trap of taking conflicts so personally

Campaign and Communications Manager Beckie Shuker reflects on our recent roundtable: 'The beating heart of our nation: toward a co-creational BBC'

For Iris Murdoch, morality is not about duties and rules but stopping our ego fantasies and attending to others with love

Our toolkit gathers tips and good practices for co-creational news media.

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A subtle and stimulating philosophical examination of scoring systems and what really matters

There are words that come up so often in public debate that we lose track of their meanings, especially once they have been weaponized. A prime example is

The University of Manchester has been celebrating 200 years of achievement in research-driven learning, development and innovation: this has included investing in our prestigious Bicentenary PhD Studentships and Fellowships. The scheme represents a major University investment of £28 million to recruit and fund more than 200 early-career researchers between 2025/26 and 2026/27.

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As Zhuangzi saw, there is no immutably true self. Instead our identity is as dynamic and alive as a butterfly in flight

The aim of this paper is to provide an exposition of Susan Stebbing’s moral philosophy. Stebbing is increasingly recognized as a key figure in early analytic philosophy. However, there is no ...

Kantian ethics is traditionally seen as grounded in unchanging, universally binding, and a priori knowable principles. I argue that this picture is incomplete: Kant grounds his ethics not only in cat....

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For this months Philosophy in the Bookshop event, David Bather Woods discusses his new biography of Schopenhauer with Nigel Warburton

For Iris Murdoch, morality is not about duties and rules but stopping our ego fantasies and attending to others with love

Abstract. This chapter raises a challenge for a common claim, which is that reasons are the mark of the normative. The claim tends to be accepted even by d

The project provides a roadmap for news organisations seeking to bridge the gap between elite journalism and social media chaos, offering a third way that prioritises both truth and community engageme...

Jonathan Heawood, Executive Director of PINF, introduces new framework designed to reshape trust, participation and truth in the media.What do you get when you put 50 experts in a room to talk about t...

The official journal of the Aristotelian Society. Publishes the papers read at the Society?s fortnightly meetings in London, covering a range of philosophical issues, including: Epistemology, Philosop...

Helen De Cruz, professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, has died. Professor De Cruz specialized in philosophy of religion and cognitive science. They were the author of Wonderstruck: How Won...

Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza.

The Zhuangzi prompts us to reflect on the shallow attitudes of those who want to draw attention to what some people lack, rather than what they might have

Young, progressive and relatable, the former prime minister of New Zealand tried to do politics differently. But six years into power, she dramatically resigned. In an exclusive interview with the Gua...

Mary Midgley has become an increasingly prominent name in recent years. This could be attributed to her passing in 2018, which, along with the rise in Midgley and “Wartime Quartet” scholarship, has dr...

New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right

I am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is.

Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid Three hundred and eighty writers and organisations including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Russell T Davies, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and George Monbiot have signed a letter stating that the Israeli government’s war in Gaza is genocidal and calling for an immediate ceasefire. “The use of the words ‘genocide’ or ‘acts of genocide’ to describe what is happening in Gaza is no longer debated by international legal experts or human rights organizations,” reads the letter, which was also signed by William Dalrymple, Jeanette Winterson, Brian Eno, Kate Mosse, Irvine Welsh and Elif Shafak. Continue reading...

The Idea of Moral Socialism event page

The aim of the workshop is to further our understanding of foundational questions about morality. We are open to perspectives from both metaethics and normative ethics, addressing questions such as: W...

New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right

Abstract. Interest in social epistemology and work in this area have exploded in recent years with the publication of a vast quantity of exciting and wholl