Sociologist Edgar Morin Dies at 104
In a world in crisis, we lose more than an author. We lose a form of public intelligence…
How does consciousness work? Duelling scientists tested two big theories but found no winner
We don’t yet know whether it will yield to the current methods of consciousness science, or whether it requires a revolution in our concepts or methods…
Colors are objective, according to two philosophers − even though the blue you see doesn’t match what I see
Elay Shech, Auburn University and Michael Watkins, Auburn University Is your green my green? Probably not. What appears as pure green to me will likely look a bit yellowish or blueish to…
Freedumb: The Neoliberal Cult of Total Detachment
We are not autonomous beings; we never were. We are social beings and denying that truth only condemns us to loneliness and exhaustion…
Dialektika Editorial | Violence Against the University in Serbia
On Sunday, March 30, during a peaceful demonstration in the city of Niš, southern Serbia, Professor Natalija Jovanović, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Niš, was attacked with…
Are our thoughts ‘real’? Here’s what philosophy says
You can doubt just about anything. But there’s one thing you can know for sure: you are having thoughts right now. This idea came to characterise the philosophical thinking of 17th century…
In a time of information overload, enigmatic philosopher Byung-Chul Han seeks the re-enchantment of the world
Byung-Chul Han is the enigmatic philosopher and author of The Burnout Society and Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power.…
What inner speech is, and why philosophy is waking up to it
Daniel Gregory, Universitat de Barcelona It is quite rare for philosophers to start investigating a new area, and a lot of the questions they explore have been around since ancient times. However,…
What the Stoics understood as living well, in conformity with our nature
The lessons of the Stoics indicate two paths that converge in a central highway: to know ourselves fully and to exercise virtues in pursuit of a social life that, although it will…
Bertrand Russell – The Value of Philosophy
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for…