Knowledge

Philosophy

The Rashomon effect

Metaphysics

Cognition and intelligence

Thinkers and theories

When hope is a hindrance

Political philosophy

War and peace

Meaning and the good life

Fifty per cent

Illness and disease

Life stages

Philosophy of mind

Alison Gopnik: Cognition, care and spirituality

Human evolution

What is ‘the West’?

Nations and empires

Politics and government

History of ideas

The invention of individual responsibility

Values and beliefs

Germany’s Wollstonecraft

Gender

Small is beautiful: impressions of Fritz Schumacher

Economics

History of technology

The mind does not exist

Psychiatry and psychotherapy

The view from her

Gender and identity

Democracy is sentimental

Ethics

Beauty and aesthetics

Can culture degenerate?

Stories and literature

Progress and modernity

In praise of possibility

Economic history

Bioethics

Don’t farm bugs

Animals and humans

Food and drink

Forget morality

Virtues and vices

Is life meaningless? And other absurd questions

A just and loving gaze

Philosophy of religion

Death

Is grandad on the moon?

Family life

Rituals and celebrations

Lies and honest mistakes

Information and communication

How important is white fear?

Demography and migration

Ideas that work

On the necessity of obedience

Human rights and justice

Philosophy’s lack of progress

A brief history of the devil

Religion

Essays and videos on philosophy, the history of ideas, ethics and life’s big questions

Philosophy Essays from Aeon. World-leading thinkers explore life’s big questions and the history of ideas from Socrates to Simone de Beauvoir, political philosophy to philosophy of mind, the Western canon and the non-Western world.
