A plan to save Europe: Pay every EU citizen a ‘Eurodividend’Unthinkable: Finland has piloted a basic income scheme; could the EU follow suit?Tue Sept 12 2017 - 06:15
Why poorly-designed cities are bad for your mental healthUnthinkable: Bad environmental design can cause stress, alienation and even depressionTue Sept 05 2017 - 06:15
Onora O’Neill: ‘We have some very skilful faking going on’It’s getting harder to distinguish between truth and lies but ‘people can learn to make better judgements’ about who to trust, says the Northern Irish philosopherSat Aug 26 2017 - 06:00
Paul Ricoeur: The philosopher behind Emmanuel MacronUnthinkable: Macron studied under Ricoeur. What could it mean for his presidency?Tue May 30 2017 - 10:04
What does sport tell us about morality?Unthinkable: Each sporting code has its own moral customs but that doesn't necessarily mean all ethics is relativeWed May 24 2017 - 07:14
Aristotle got it wrong: We have a lot more than five sensesUnthinkable: Philosophers need to grapple with the ‘symphony of senses’ being discovered by scienceTue May 16 2017 - 06:00
Is it possible for anxiety to be cured?Unthinkable: The philosopher may give you a very different answer to the therapistTue May 09 2017 - 05:00
How to spot when politicians are misrepresenting scienceUnthinkable: Cherry-picking facts and nitpicking are common political ploysTue May 02 2017 - 01:00
Who should you trust and why?Unthinkable: We should cut experts more slack for telling us what we don’t want to hear, says philosopher Lizzie FrickerTue Apr 25 2017 - 06:00
Idlers of the world unite: Why the work ethic needs to be resistedUnthinkable: The problems of modern labour call for a ‘collective and structural solution’, says David FrayneMon Apr 17 2017 - 08:00
Dear atheists, please stop calling religion a memeUnthinkable: ‘Catholic agnostic’ Gary Gutting criticises pseudoscientific putdowns of religionSun Apr 09 2017 - 08:00
Can science ever tell us whether free will exists?Brain experiments have yet to shed light on the ‘freedom that matters’, says philosopher Markus SchlosserSun Apr 02 2017 - 01:00
In defence of hedonismUnthinkable: Far from being party people, true hedonists are sensible individualsMon Mar 27 2017 - 17:59
How do we distinguish good businesses from evil ones?Unthinkable: Companies have a duty to provide ‘meaning’ in society. An anti-evil slogan isn't enoughMon Mar 20 2017 - 15:58
Unthinkable: What lies behind your self-esteem?Flourishing in life starts with putting trust in yourself, argues philosopher Anna BortolanTue Mar 14 2017 - 09:58
Christian Brothers withdrawal is not first clash over divestmentEntity managing property interests initially refused to surrender vacant school premisesFri Mar 10 2017 - 12:17
Unthinkable: How do we ‘know’ anything?Relativist thinkers are providing a ‘smokescreen’ for the likes of Donald Trump, warns professor of logic Timothy WilliamsonMon Mar 06 2017 - 09:28
Why not taking offence will make you – and the world – betterUnthinkable: Donald Trump may make your skin crawl but your anger ‘destroys you’ not him, argues Brant HansenTue Feb 21 2017 - 00:00
Unthinkable: Why ‘meaning’ should be part of the school vocabularyStudents should ask ‘what’s the point?’ rather than ‘how many points?’Mon Feb 20 2017 - 16:40
Enda Kenny’s ‘mea culpa’: the science of false memoryResearch shows faulty recall is more likely to happen when you are stressed or overloadedWed Feb 15 2017 - 11:08
Unthinkable: Why it makes sense to be a neo-LudditeAI is displacing jobs – we need a ‘union 2.0’ to fight back, says William MyersMon Feb 13 2017 - 14:03
Have you ever had ‘unjust sex’?Unthinkable: Examples include ‘women being pressured – not quite to the point of outright coercion – to have sex, or to have sex without contraception’, says philosopher Ann CahillSun Feb 05 2017 - 15:32
Why new technology is draining meaning from your jobJob insecurity and technology have created a crisis in today’s workplaceSat Feb 04 2017 - 06:00
Unthinkable: Should we always put human rights first?‘Empowerment is crucial for people with impaired capacity’ but it isn’t the only thing of value, says Prof Mary DonnellyMon Jan 30 2017 - 15:02
Five signs you share Donald Trump’s ‘gapped’ logicThe US president’s rhetoric has the hallmarks of a cognitive ‘stuttering’ that’s creeping into schools, argues Fiachra LongMon Jan 23 2017 - 13:37
Unthinkable: The Islamic thinker who ‘proved’ God existsMedieval philosophers don’t get much attention these days but Avicenna deserves it, says Prof Peter AdamsonMon Jan 16 2017 - 16:07
Unthinkable: We lie to ourselves more than to othersSelf-deception is rife, says Colm Fitzgerald, and our education system is to blameMon Jan 09 2017 - 10:51
Does a disability necessarily make you worse off?‘Being disabled is a way of being a minority,’ says philosopher Elizabeth BarnesTue Dec 13 2016 - 01:01
How Friedrich Nietzsche helps to explain BrexitUnthinkable: The German philosopher foresaw the rise of ‘petty politics’ in Europe, says author Hugo DrochonMon Dec 05 2016 - 20:54
Why Ireland’s citizens’ assembly is a model for EuropeUnthinkable: Deliberative democracy experiment shows Ireland ‘trusts its citizens, instead of fearing them’Sun Nov 27 2016 - 16:38
How religion can be taught in a ‘neutral’ wayIrish schools introducing the new ‘religions and ethics’ course can learn from the Berlin experienceMon Nov 21 2016 - 19:30
Teach philosophy to heal our ‘post-truth’ society, says President HigginsPresident highlights need for citizens to identify ‘illusory rhetoric’ after recent eventsSun Nov 20 2016 - 18:24
Let’s reimagine democracy: replace elections with lotteriesBrexit and the Trump presidency are making people ask whether the current form of democracy is the best we can doSat Nov 19 2016 - 06:00
Want a kinder world? Then seek help‘To be truly benevolent we should solicit the kindness of others,’ argues lecturer Seán MoranTue Nov 15 2016 - 11:06
World Philosophy Day: We need to start talking about life’s ‘meaning’If the world stops making sense, call the philosopherTue Nov 15 2016 - 01:00
Has democracy become a threat to the planet?Unthinkable: Democratic politics have not been good to the environment, but it needn’t be so, says Diarmuid TorneyMon Nov 07 2016 - 15:09
What Aristotle can teach us about friendshipSomething you won’t hear on Facebook: only the virtuous can be true friendsTue Nov 01 2016 - 01:00
Does science have all the answers?No, says Susan Haack, but scientists are generally better at producing answers than philosophersTue Oct 25 2016 - 10:14
So you think you’re bad at maths? Think againYou can change your ability by first of all changing your mindsetTue Oct 18 2016 - 08:22
Unthinkable: Are you part of the 1% but just don’t know it?Don’t underestimate your power to make a difference, says ‘effective altruism’ advocate William Mac AskillTue Oct 11 2016 - 06:00
Is humanity losing faith in reason?Philosopher Julian Baggini says rationality needs to be rethought to counter the forces of unreasonTue Oct 04 2016 - 06:00
Is there any such thing as an ethical steak?Unthinkable: The rights of animals cannot be dismissed, argues philosopher Tatjana VišakSun Sept 25 2016 - 06:00
35 years of abortion demos: from Plac and Spuc to ‘Repeal the 8th’Ahead of Saturday’s pro-choice rallies, a look at some of the most influential protests and counter-protests on abortionFri Sept 23 2016 - 18:10
Is humour an effective way of communicating wisdom?Shared, unspoken knowledge is always the active ingredient in ‘getting the joke’Tue Sept 20 2016 - 08:00
Unthinkable: Do you need faith to give your life meaning?There are ‘few indications’ that God matters to the Irish, says sociologist Tom InglisThu Sept 08 2016 - 16:35
Unthinkable: Who should you follow on social media for unbiased opinion?Philosophers should take the broadest possible measure of beliefs, argues philosopher Justin EH SmithTue Sept 06 2016 - 01:00
Sabina Higgins backs campaign for teaching philosophy in schoolsNew organisation set up to support teachers who wish to offer Junior Cycle short courseSun Aug 28 2016 - 13:18
I’m a philosopher, get me out of here!Two new books, The Philosopher: A History in Six Types and Philosophy and Practical Engagement, ask if an ancient discipline has lost its wayThu Aug 25 2016 - 15:55
Joe Humphreys: How the left can rise again - in three easy stepsValues, free enterprise and religion can all play a part in winning over the votersMon Jul 18 2016 - 01:00
Joe Humphreys: Rebranding socialism as humane and socially responsible capitalismIrish socialist thinking has moved on very little since the foundation of the StateMon Jul 11 2016 - 10:28
