Nassim Nicholas Taleb has had a run-away success with The Black Swan, a book about surprise run-away successes. Constantine Sandis talks with him about knowledge and scepticism. As I find myself in ...

Philip Goff discusses a thought-experiment about consciousness. For the last five hundred years or so physics has been doing extraordinarily well. More and more of our world has been captured in its ...

Mike Fuller asks whether applied ethics is possible. Over the past decade, there has been a distinct shift of interest in moral philosophy from considering questions of ‘meta-ethics’ to considering ...

Susan Leigh Anderson and Michael Anderson relate how their attempts to build ethical machines have advanced their understanding of ethics. Our current research is concerned with the newly emerging ...

Does free will exist? Michael Hauskeller reasons about reasons. Imagine you go to a restaurant. Looking at the menu, you discover that they serve your two favourite meals – say asparagus and spinach ...

Stephen Anderson reflects on responses to Hume’s argument that we can’t derive moral duties from facts. It’s Christmas season again. Among the many charms of the holiday season is the proliferation of ...

Ralph Blumenau tells us what great thinkers said about great music. Today some universities have courses in the Philosophy of Music. They study such questions as: What is the definition of music? What ...

Mark Daniels introduces a whole millenium of ideas. Let us start by considering three points. First, medieval philosophy came from a period when philosophy was under attack: the proponents of ...

Hegel’s philosophy of history is most lucidly set out in his Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, given at the University of Berlin in 1822, 1828 and 1830. In his introduction to those ...

Robin Rymarczuk is Michel Foucault’s ‘friend’. Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard University room-mates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and ...

Stanley Fish is an American literary theorist, legal scholar, and public intellectual. Scott Parker asks him about a particular kind of community. The idea of interpretive communities was introduced ...

Conducted for Philosophy Now by Russell Wilkinson and Chris Mitchell. In January 1960, the French writer and philosopher Albert Camus was killed in a car crash along with his friend and publisher, ...