Opening at the scene of a picnic in a Chicago park, then gradually zooming out to encompass a view 100 million light years away before magnifying down again to a single proton, this classic 1977 short ...

is professor of philosophy at St Olaf College in Minnesota, US. He is the author of Experiments in Living Together: How Democracy Drives Social Progress (2024). The transformation of American public ...

is a British poet, writer and explorer. His latest book is White Mountain: Real and Imagined Journeys in the Himalayas (2016), and he divides his time between the UK and Egypt.

How much power should a promise hold, and when – if ever – should a promise be broken? In this brief animation, Sarah Stroud, the director of the Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North ...

is associate professor of philosophy at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. At 8:30 am sharp, a white van pulls up to Boone Hall, where the Outsiders are huddled in their black shirts, ...

is emeritus curator of biological anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago, a member of the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, and academic guest of the Institute of ...

is a professor, writer and filmmaker at Stony Brook University. She publishes widely on ecofeminism, nuclear issues, toxics and climate. Presently, she is producing and directing the documentary film ...

is an editor at Aeon. He lives in New York.

is a research fellow at The New Institute in Hamburg. His books include A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection (2021) and The ...

is professor of philosophy at the University of Manchester, UK.

is assistant professor of philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.

is a writer and philosopher. His latest book is How to Think Like a Philosopher (2023).