Explore the readings

Begin with a topic or thinker, or browse all 134 readings. Follow a connection into the guided course, a focused study or a reference article.

Readings gathered under one heading may well disagree; each introduction explains what connects them.

Topics

2 readings
Art and beauty
What can art and aesthetic experience help us understand?
29 readings
Ethics and living well
How should we live and relate to others?
19 readings
Freedom and responsibility
What can we choose, and what are we answerable for?
51 readings
Knowledge and reasoning
What gives us reason to believe a claim?
28 readings
Language and interpretation
How do words, texts and practices become intelligible?
10 readings
Nature, science and technology
How do we understand and act within the more-than-human world?
45 readings
Power, justice and community
How should a shared world be organized?
32 readings
Reality and change
What exists, and how can things change or endure?
30 readings
Religion and liberation
How have people understood sacred claims and practices, and what would release from suffering mean?
38 readings
Self, mind and experience
What is a self, and what does experience disclose?