Beauty and aesthetics

Philosophy

John Ruskin: in awe of nature

Nature and landscape

Consciousness and altered states

Who decides what art means?

Thinkers and theories

The painter who revolutionised landscapes

Dance and theatre

Culture

The six sides of Merce Cunningham

Great art explained: Mona Lisa

History of ideas

Philosophy of science

The beautiful experiment

History of science

Computing and artificial intelligence

Science

Vertigo AI

Film and visual culture

Architecture

Being in a building

Music

4’33”

Neuroscience

Psychology

Anjan Chatterjee: neurological disorder and art

Chemistry

Phenomena: energy

Physics

Maestro of more than music

Biography and memoir

Kabuki: the classic theatre of Japan

Can culture degenerate?

Stories and literature

Progress and modernity

The Great Wave by Hokusai

Global history

Komorebi

Language and linguistics

Should we censor art?

Ethics

A philosophy of sound

Cognition and intelligence

Engineering

Unfold the maths of origami

Mathematics

Biotechnology

Building beauty with biology

Biology

Gradations

Design and fashion

The peace of wild things

Wellbeing

De artificiali perspectiva, or anamorphosis

History of technology

Art in public places

Cities

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.
