It is possible to care deeply about conceptual and existential questions and extended projects without feeling the need to determine the single, total purpose of one’s life.

There are some things we may never have answers for, but that doesn't stop us from asking the questions. Here are forty of life's most interesting questions that will make you rethink everything.

Ad Policy Illustration by Liam Eisenberg. This article appears in the May 2025 issue. Agnes Callard’s Open Socrates is like many works of philosophy: It is addressed to a certain kind of skeptic ...

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Philosophers have debated life’s biggest questions for centuries with no clear answers. But what happens when an AI – designed to process vast amounts of information – tries to tackle them?

Max Kestner’s meandering meditation on 'Life and Other Problems' serves up little but placid platitudes about age-long philosophical inquiries.

Christian Philosophy as a Way of Life is excellent. As someone who has been doing philosophy professionally for over 30 years, I am not the intended reader. But I still learned a great deal.

What if the philosophical life really is the only one worth living? In “Open Socrates,” Agnes Callard argues for a way of being that sounds a lot like her own.