The UK medicines regulator has given approval for an experimental vaccine to be tested on healthy adults.

From classical painting to video games, this survey of the taboo and the twisted won’t let you look away

We, the undersigned, call on the University of Nottingham to reverse its plans to impose compulsory redundancies on its staff in the Department of Philosophy. The University threatens to cut around o...

Reading Time: 3 minutesCover image: Cardiff University humanities library was recently threatened with closure but plans were shelved…

In ‘Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art’ (Viking, Aug.), Cardiff University philosophy professor Dixon examines art that shocks, provokes, or offends.

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Please join us for the 4th annual Philosophy AI conference on 21-22 May 2026.

Philosophy of AI Summer School 2026: Reasoning and Agency in AI, June 15–19, Venice. Applications now open!

The Cardiff University Philosophy Department will hold a conference on “Speech and Society: Contemporary Philosophy of Language” taking place 24th – 25th of June. In recent years, t...

A former student of mine has penned an attack on universities, derived from their own disappointing experience studying Politics and International Relations at the place where I ply my trade. In short...

Distinctively HumanSarah Fisher In Concepts at the Interface, Shea offers us a compelling account of what concepts are and why they matter. His nuanced and careful treatment captures the function and feel of offline deliberation, ranging from abstract logical reasoning to building concrete suppositional scenarios. The puzzle motivating Shea’s analysis is how concepts can fulfil the distinct roles attributed to them.

This week, we are featuring a symposium on Nick Shea's recent book, Concepts at the Interface.  We have three great commentaries from Eric Margolis, Johan Heemskerk and Gualtiero Piccinini, and Sarah Fisher, then responses from Nick on Thursday and Friday.  Please join us!

Calling all researchers in experimental philosophy, cognitive psychology, and experimental linguistics to submit work on verbal reasoning!

A wave of AI users presenting in states of psychological distress gave birth to an unofficial diagnostic label. Experts say it’s neither accurate nor needed, but concede that it’s likely to stay.

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Call for Abstracts: The journal Midwest Studies in Philosophy is putting together a special volume on Political Epistemology. The issue will feature invited contributions from scholars such as Alex Gu...

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On the philosophy of meaning and more

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This week we ask what drives ideological disagreement in politics? How far do people on left and right disagree with each other because they have fundamentally different moral intuitions or for other ...

Professor Jeffrey Howard discusses the many ethical questions raised by the fact-checking and moderation changes at Meta and its platforms.

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This book appears at a time of intense debate on how states should respond to refugees: some philosophers argue states are not necessarily obligated to admit a single refugee, others argue states shou...

The bill passing the first stage in the Commons means it will be followed by months of parliamentary activity before it becomes a law.

6.30pm Tue 3 Dec | Jonathan Birch | Free public event at LSE

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