WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?

Raphael depicts it as an ongoing conversation, never finished like the building in which the philosophers are talking - all except for Heraclitus in front who prefers to brood: panta rhei. All is in flux.

IS HUMAN KNOWLEDGE UNIFIED?

We like to think that our knowledge forms a unity and that we will eventually have a single unified theory of everything. But that may be an illusion. CLICK FOR MORE

Facts, Possibilities, and the World. Three Lessons from the Tractatus

Wittgenstein’s Tractatus has always been and remains a puzzle and that from its first page onwards. The ever-growing secondary literature on the Tractatus shows how easy it is to become absorbed in its hermeneutics. More important, however, is the question what substantively philosophical lessons we can extract from Wittgenstein’s words. There are, it turns out, at least, three of them.

POLITICS AND OUTER SPACE

Hannah Arendt began her discussion of the human condition in 1958 by reflecting on the Sputnik satellite recently launched by the Russians. Her goal was to diagnose the state of politics "from the vantage point of our newest experiences and our most recent fears.” CLICK HERE FOR MORE

PHILOSOPHY AS SEEN FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOP

I talk to Johnny Lyons about philosophy, my life, and everything else. CLICK HERE FOR THE AUDIO.