Is it better to be on the edge or in the centre? In this eccentric essay, the polymath Charles Foster puts forward a controversial thesis: edges are where all the good stuff happens, from evolution to human creativity – even if the centre people try to convince us otherwise

In New York, a pair of masked climbers are in police custody after scaling the top of the Empire State Building's antenna. While there, they unfurled a banner that read, "When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace."

When is #lying good or bad? Is there anything that's always #good or bad? Join us #online for a new discussion group on #Plato's Lesser #Hippias! 🎭 👉 RSVP for the 1st meeting on 7/18 here - meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Ethics #MoralPhilosophy

Breaking News: For the first time, researchers have created a cell with most of the hallmarks of life.

‘A church for the dispossessed, rave culture offered a way to find ecstasy amid agony, community from abandon, and meaning through resilience.’ For its adherents, rave culture functions as a kind of spiritual technology, producing the kinds of experiences that humans have long called sacred

How do #perception, #cognition, & #emotion work? Join us #online for a series on #neurobiology & philosophy! All welcome! 🧠 ▶ RSVP for the 1st meetup on 6/30 here – www.meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Science #Consciousness #Psychology #AI #CogSci

Two philosophers are recognized for their courage in standing up for academic freedom and freedom of speech...

How do #perception, #cognition, & #emotion work? Join us #online for a series on #neurobiology & philosophy! All welcome! 🧠 ▶ RSVP for the 1st meetup on 6/30 here – www.meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Science #Consciousness #Psychology #AI #CogSci

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to le magnifique Joel Warner about the life of the #MarquisDeSade Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

🎙️ Ancient Greece and Rome are often celebrated as the foundations of democracy. But how have they also been used to legitimize exclusionary politics? @curtisdozier.bsky.social joins #RevDemPodcast to discuss the political afterlives of classical antiquity. 🧑‍💻 Listen here: 👉 tinyurl.com/5n9atzxu

Join us #online every Sunday this summer to make #art together & explore creative #expression! 💃 All welcome! 🎨 👉 RSVP for the 1st meetup on 6/28 (featuring #Rilke's "Letters to a Young #Poet") here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Artists #Music

Peace is widely valued, yet evidence suggests that conflict and adversity may be essential for fostering purpose, cohesion, and motivation. | https://iai.tv/video/peace-passion-and-adventure Join Janne Teller, Alenka Zupančič, and Paul Bloom as they debate the comfort of chaos.

Join us #online every Sunday this summer to make #art together & explore creative #expression! 💃 All welcome! 🎨 👉 RSVP for the 1st meetup on 6/28 (featuring #Rilke's "Letters to a Young #Poet") here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Artists #Music

Humanitarian journalism is a moral calling to document human suffering. But in practice, it’s an ethically murky undertaking. An Essay by Cathy Otten

Finance packages up the productive economy to resell it by its own rules, which ruin living conditions and dominate the global order. We need a critical theory of finance to study the ill effects of this. Join us Mon Jun 15 ~ 10am ET / 3pm UK #Philosophy www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

Nation's sports franchises mark Pride Month with the annual closing of the comment section www.thebeaverton.com/2026/06/nati...

What do we learn about ourselves in #motion, in #transit, in different lands? Join us #online for a discussion group on the #Phenomenology of #Travel! ✈🌞 ➡ RSVP for the 1st meetup on 6/21 here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #MerleauPonty #Place

The pull we feel towards beauty encodes a fantasy that reality is ordered and familiar, accessible to reason and observation. | https://bit.ly/4mxZl7G Jane Forsey argues that letting ugliness into our theories lets us confront the world’s strangeness and our irredeemable disconnection from it.

'Taiwan Travelogue' author hopes book can be read in China. Yang Shuang-zi, tells AFP she hopes her International Booker Prize-winning novel can one day be read in China and facilitate dialogue about the "future Taiwanese people want" u.afp.com/SRz2

What do we learn about ourselves in #motion, in #transit, in different lands? Join us #online for a discussion group on the #Phenomenology of #Travel! ✈🌞 ➡ RSVP for the 1st meetup on 6/21 here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #MerleauPonty #Place

We are one week away from the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings. Join us for a wonderful evening of international poetry bringing together voices from around the world. 📅 June 3 | 🕖 7:00 PM ET 📍 Koerner Hall, Toronto (@@royalconservatory.bsky.social) 💻 YouTube livestream available worldwide

Today's new #HoPWaG episode: tinyurl.com/3actkf67 "Learning to Unlearn: Han Feizi and Confucianism" Does Han Fei's focus on “standards” allow him to provide a more realistic political theory than the Confucian focus on moral cultivation? #philsky #chinesephilosophy #podcast

“Who Is the Murderer?”🔪 Join us #online on May 24 to discuss Fritz #Lang's classic of #German cinema #M! 💀 #Film #Movies ▶ Sign up for the meetup here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Cinema #Art #Death #PoliticalPhilosophy #Justice #Psychology

The latest issue of JESP has just been published! Head over to www.jesp.org to read new articles about proxy responsibility, a progressive critique of rap music, grounding human rights, first-person authority over gender, politics and foreign donations, supererogation, and reparations.

Aldo Leopold saw this in the eyes of a dying wolf: when we no longer fear nature, we are on the road to its destruction. An Essay by Shawn Simpson

What is the relation between #Mind and #World? Join us #online for a new reading group on John #McDowell's classic text! 🧠 👉 Sign up for the 1st meeting on 5/22 here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Metaphysics #Consciousness #Kant #Nature

What is the relation between #Mind and #World? Join us #online for a new reading group on John #McDowell's classic text! 🧠 👉 Sign up for the 1st meeting on 5/22 here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Metaphysics #Consciousness #Kant #Nature

Latest papers: Jasmine Wanjiru Onstad argues that CBT’s dominance contributes to hermeneutical injustice in psychiatry by limiting patients’ interpretive agency and restricting pathways for psychological healing in this open access article #philsky #philpsy doi.org/10.1080/0951...

“Who Is the Murderer?”🔪 Join us #online on May 24 to discuss Fritz #Lang's classic of #German cinema #M! 💀 #Film #Movies ▶ Sign up for the meetup here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Cinema #Art #Death #PoliticalPhilosophy #Justice #Psychology

How do we know what’s morally right? Many philosophers argue that we are products of our environments. But how do people know to take morally right actions against the rules of their communities? Those ‘going-against-the-grainers’ can give us rich new insights into morality

What is the place of #hope in #existentialism? Join us #online on May 22 for a discussion of Gabriel #Marcel's #phenomenology! 🕯️ 👉 Register for the meetup here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Metphysics #Consciousness #Ethics #Christianity

'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder' is the way Margaret Hungerford reframed an old saying about beauty in the mid-19th century. | https://bit.ly/4cxHklq But critics warn that this idea validates prejudice and shields our tastes from scrutiny. Jessica DeFino, Simon May, and Janne Teller debate.

Join us #online for a reading group on "The Normal and the Pathological" by Georges #Canguilhem, #Foucault's great teacher! 🔬 #HistoryOfScience ▶ RSVP for the 1st meeting on 5/15 here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Science #PhilosophyOfScience

New! "Ethical Non-Cognitivism: Are Ethical Judgments More Like Desires Than Beliefs?" by Rodrigo Valencia Pacheco 1000wordphilosophy.com/2026/04/10/e... #ethics #metaethics #philosophy

Join us #online for a live #DJ set & philosophical discussion on #rave culture, #movement, & the body with conscious/ecstatic #dance facilitator Cece! 👯 🎶 RSVP for the Apr 26 (EDT) meetup here – www.meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Music #EDM #PLUR

Sunday read: "Marx's Materialism and the Critique of Philosophy" Andrés Saenz de Sicilia on Marx's break from philosophy to prioritize lived reality over abstract thought and move toward a grasping and changing the conditions of existence. #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/marx-ma...

Join us #online for a live #DJ set & philosophical discussion on #rave culture, #movement, & the body with conscious/ecstatic #dance facilitator Cece! 👯 🎶 RSVP for the Apr 26 (EDT) meetup here – www.meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Music #EDM #PLUR

Announcing: Philosophies of the South!! Reimagining philosophy through alternative ways of knowing. All events are free, Mondays at 2pm ET / 7pm UK featuring Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Radha D'Souza, Nandita Sharma, Mark Minch-de Leon, Leny Mendoza Strobel and so many more! #Philosophy #PhilEvents

Join us #online with author Blake McBride for a #lecture & #discussion series on his new book Life Explained: Answers to the Big and Little Questions! 🌌 #Spinoza 👉 Sign up for the 1st session here – www.meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Metaphysics

Apologies for our (brief) absence, listeners, but we're back with a new episode! Check out this fascinating conversation with Jeff Bernstein about his forthcoming book *Adorno, Strauss, and Antifascist Philosophy* from SUNY Press! Then, go punch a Nazi. hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/stra...

Join us #online for a talk & guided experiential session on #Gurdjieff & Esoteric #Christianity with author & practitioner Luke Behncke! ✝️ 👉 RSVP for the 4/13 meeting here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Spirituality #Religion #Metaphysics

Is today’s progressive politics really advancing equality, or entrenching a new elite? | https://bit.ly/4tbkabw Catherine Liu argues that progressive politics has been captured by the professional managerial class, which replaces material redistribution with virtue signalling and cultural status.

Join us #online for a discussion on the #philosophy of #jazz, improvisation, and #creativity on April 12! 🎷 ▶ RSVP for the meeting here – www.meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily events! #Psychology #Music #Musicians #Dance #Phenomenology #MerleauPonty #Consciousness #Art

Join us #online for a talk & guided experiential session on #Gurdjieff & Esoteric #Christianity with author & practitioner Luke Behncke! ✝️ 👉 RSVP for the 4/13 meeting here – meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Spirituality #Religion #Metaphysics

Coming up: Mon. Mar. 30 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK "Towards Pluralistic Decolonial Humanisms" Nelson Maldonado-Torres with Felwine Sarr How philosophies emerging from histories of colonialism might help reimagine humanity and our relationship to the planet. www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/philo...

Pretentious nonsense or actually good?🤔 Join us on #Zoom to discuss Alain #Resnais’ 1961 classic of modernist #cinema Last Year at Marienbad! 📽 ➡ RSVP for the 3/29 meetup here – www.meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Film #Movies #Art #Music #Discuss

We have a new essay! "Pragmatic Encroachment: Do Our Practical Interests Affect What We Know?" by Alexandra Lloyd 1000wordphilosophy.com/2026/03/19/p... #philosophy #knowledge #epistemology #theoryofknowledge

What can #dance & the lived body teach us about #philosophy? Join us for an #online discussion on March 27! 💃 👉 Sign up for the meeting here – www.meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily philosophy events! #Dancing #MerleauPonty #Consciousness #Phenomenology #Music #Movement

Was the global decline of extreme poverty only due to China? The share of the world population living in extreme poverty has never declined as rapidly as in the past three decades.

What rights should #animals have? Join us on #Zoom for a series of debates on Animal #Ethics starting 3/26! 🐮 ▶ Sign up for the 1st meeting here – www.meetup.com/the-toronto-... 🗓 Check out our calendar for daily #philosophy events! #Morality #AnimalRights #AppliedEthics #Veganism #Consciousness