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Philosophy

October 2022

  • Illustration for Guardian long read 27 April 2021.

    The Audio Long Read
    The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion? – podcast

    A growing chorus of scientists and philosophers argue that free will does not exist. Could they be right? By Oliver Burkeman

September 2022

  • Saul Kripke

    Saul Kripke obituary

    Influential American philosopher whose 1980 book Naming and Necessity challenged ideas about the identity of mind and brain

August 2022

  • Observer New Review ONLY PR shots William MacAskill - existential risk optimist. Portraits by Matt Crockett

    William MacAskill: ‘There are 80 trillion people yet to come. They need us to start protecting them’

  • Illustration of two women, and a rainbow linking them

    Self and wellbeing
    Being cheerful on the outside can help you – and others – feel it on the inside

July 2022

  • June Huh

    June Huh, deep thinking and the value of idleness

  • Brigid Delaney

    Trump, Johnson, Morrison: is the era of shameless leaders behind us at last?

    Brigid Delaney

June 2022

  • Hourglass with blue sand on the table.

    How to age well
    In your own time: how to live for today the philosophical way

    What’s gone is gone, but don’t waste time worrying about that.
    Or on what comes next. The ideal way to age is to be in the moment

May 2022

  • Photos of sculpted head

    Roman sculpture up for auction in US linked to disgraced dealer

  • Alessandro Michele (left) and the actor Jared Leto in matching outfits at the 2022 Met Gala.

    ‘This place is a stargate between earth and sky!’: dreaming big with Gucci’s Alessandro Michele

  • Deborah James

    In her gracious acceptance of death, Deborah James has given us lessons in how to live

    Nicci Gerrard
  • illustration of a hand reaching into a cookie jar

    The long read
    Why is it so hard to control our appetites? A doctor’s struggles with giving up sugar

March 2022

  • Brigid Delaney

    We cling to our memory of the perfect summer – before flood, fire and plague. But the past is gone and we have to wake up

    Brigid Delaney
    Signs of collapse are everywhere, and if we think it’s possible to return to ‘normal’, then we are deluded

February 2022

  • Elizabeth Cripps

    Here’s how to demolish the most common excuses for climate crisis apathy

    Elizabeth Cripps
  • Theodor Lessing

    Wit and wisdom of Germany’s anti-noise philosopher revealed to new readers

January 2022

  • Boss Baby balloon

    Internet wormhole
    ‘Thematically richer than the Bible’: what I learned at the first annual Boss Baby symposium

    Academics gather online to explore the philosophical underpinnings of a movie about a baby who is also a boss

December 2021

  • Longread of the year 2021

    The long read
    The best of the long read in 2021

  • ‘The beauty of hooks was her ability to bring philosophy to the people, said Saida Grundy, a feminist sociologist of race and ethnicity at Boston University.’

    bell hooks’ writing told Black women and girls to trust themselves

    Deborah Douglas

October 2021

  • Neurobiologist and transhumanist Olga Levitskaya, 24, pictured in Moscow, is among those who believe that, through science, humans will reverse death.

    The Guardian picture essay
    Faith in -196C: pioneers of resurrection – a photo essay

  • Death cafe

    Third of Britons have seriously wished death on someone, poll finds

September 2021

  • Irish president Michael D Higgins in conversation with the Duchess of Cambridge.

    Brief letters
    Measuring up to a political colossus

    Brief letters: Relative heights | Post-Brexit breakfast | Misplaced books | English essays | Tea scum
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