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The price of everything and nothing
 What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing,” wrote Oscar Wilde. In The Price of Everything, The Value of Nothing, a HowTheLightGetsIn London debate programmed in partnership with Deloitte, panellists Daniel Susskind, Richard Kibble, Abby Innes, and Will Hutton explore the question of value. Does the economy, as it operates today, genuinely reflect what people and societies value, or does it prioritise profit over value, perpetuating the problem Oscar Wilde identified? Once central to economic theory, value has now been largely side-lined, even as the climate crisis and global uncertainties demand urgent rethinking. The debate underscores why understanding what we value—and how to value it—remains one of the most critical challenges of our time. What do we really mean by the word ‘value’? In economics, value is often equated with price. This means th...
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Loneliness and Philosophy: An Interview with Dr Ben Lazare Mijuskovic
 This post is part of a new series exploring philosophical perspectives on loneliness. If you are interested in contributing to this series, please submit a pitch. Ben Lazare Mijuskovic is a retired professor of philosophy and humanities at California State University at Dominguez Hills. He has also worked as a therapist and a licensed clinical […]
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Petrus Ramus
 [Revised entry by Erland Sellberg on November 19, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] While Petrus Ramus (1515 - 1572) undoubtedly occupies an important place in the history of ideas, few nowadays would consider him to be one of the most significant philosophers of his time. Yet in his day he gained an impressive number […]
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Blame and Dread
 The capacity for the practice of blaming roots itself deep in the core of the human condition. “Core” here should be understood as, in some sense, metaphorical: the human condition is not a space with inner and outer localities, such that some would be core and others peripheral. Nonetheless, what makes blaming possible is not, […]
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Maimonides
 [Revised entry by Kenneth Seeskin on November 18, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Moses ben Maimon [known to English speaking audiences as Maimonides and Hebrew speaking as Rambam] (1138 - 1204) is the greatest Jewish philosopher of the medieval period and is still widely read today. The Mishneh Torah, his 14-volume compendium of Jewish […]
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Reflections on My Undergraduate Experience in Philosophy
 In my first year at Queen’s University (Ontario, Canada), I had originally planned to study psychology in the hopes of becoming a therapist. I quickly realized during that year that I was not an adequate psychology student by any means. In the back of my mind, I remembered the book that my favorite high school […]
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August Wilhelm von Schlegel
 [Revised entry by Katia D. Hay on November 18, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] August W. Schlegel (Sept. 5, 1767, Hanover - May 12, 1845, Bonn) was a German essayist, critic, translator, philosopher, and poet. Although the philosophical dimension and profundity of his writings remain underrated, he is considered to be one of the […]
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Ancient Theories of Freedom and Determinism
 [Revised entry by Tim O’Keefe on November 19, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] From at least Aristotle onwards, ancient philosophers engaged in systematic reflection on human agency. They asked questions about when people are morally responsible for their actions and what must be the case for people to deliberate and act effectively, and in […]
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How Graduate School Confirmed My Passion for Philosophy
 My first semester as a graduate student at San Jose State University reassured me that pursuing a career in academic philosophy was the right choice. A common question when committing to graduate school is, Am I making the correct choice? While I still do not know what the future holds, the spring of 2024 taught […]
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The internet is making us inhuman
 What happens when we stop thinking of people as people and start thinking of them as statistics? In an increasingly online world — where many interact with people online more than in real life — the subjective experience of others is being forgotten. In this piece, Nicholas Smyth argues that the internet and other modern trends have created a new, modern dysfunction. The antidote is to re-emphasise the subjective experience of others. Writing from California in 1916, Alexander Berkman offered this observation:There is double the pathos for us in the death of one little New York waif from hunger than there is in a million deaths from famine in China. It is not … that a fe...
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