Philosophical Dictionary

In which we discuss the 2024 Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Year, "brain rot," through the lens of Adorno and Horkheimer's work on the Culture Industry.

In which we discuss epistemology in the terms of Socrates and his final dialogue, the Apology. What do we know? How do we know it? We touch on this from the context of the founder of Western philosophy.

The final par of the "Philosophy Carol" series. Meeting the Ghost of Philosophy in an eternal cafe brings you to an epiphany.

Thomas Szasz called mental illness a myth in 1961, R.D. Laing read madness as a divided self, and a former DSM editor later warned of diagnostic inflation. A 1979 study even asked whether depressed people are sadder but wiser. Which of these claims survived their critics, and which quietly fell apart?