Truth, reality, and knowledge. What exists? How can we know? What is it to be?

When it’s philosophy but it doesn’t fit neatly in a specialist category.

Contemporary events and public issues examined beyond headlines and partisan talking points.

Questions about moderation, ideas for how we can improve the site, etc.

What should we do? What is the good life? Are there moral facts? What are right and wrong, good and bad?

How do mind and body fit together? How do we account for conscious experience?

What is meaning? Does language represent reality?

Book reviews, reading groups, and questions and discussions about books and essays.

Were logic and mathematics invented or discovered? Can reason be reduced to formal logic? Are there true contradictions?

What is God? Are religion and science essentially in conflict?

The philosophical analysis of social life. How are social structures and practices constituted, justified, and transformed? Critical theory, social theory, systems theory, and social critique.

Discuss the latest research and the technology that’s changing our world.

What’s happening on TPF.

What is the nature of scientific enquiry? Does science depend on metaphysical presuppositions? Is scientific knowledge cumulative?

What is the nature of law and how does it relate to morality and society?

Government, liberty, rights, and authority. What is the best form of government?

How to TPF.

Visual art, literature, music, etc. Is there more to artistic taste than personal preference? What makes music meaningful?

History, literature, law, economics, anthropology, sociology, psychology, etc.