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impersonate

Take the roll of your favorite philosopher and win the competition!  Deadline: 30.08.2025

Your Philosophical Question (MA)

What philosophical question is burning in your mind? Writing Contest for MA students: Deadline 28.6.25.

Your Philosophical Question (BA)

What philosophical question is burning in your mind? Writing Contest for BA students: Deadline 28.6.25

GAP Essay Award 2025

The question for the GAP/GPS Essay Prize 2025 has now been announced: How does hope matter for our actions? Deadline: 31.10.2025

Philosophy of AI and the Role of Digital Design

This blog post originally appeared with ETH’s think-and-do tank RETHINK in September 2020. Its projects on AI and digital design have now been completed, but the blog post may still be of interest.

QS ranking of philosophy departments

some quite surprising "results"

Philosophy and Food

What does food (or eating it) have in common with philosophy? A new project in cooperation with Stadt Ernähren! This project is in german.

Lit-Philo

Philosophy and Literature - A project developed by Simone Olivadoti. The project is in German.

Samia Hurst on Elon Musk

Whether we should decide to think he's a fascist.

Our statistics

Here are some statistics about the articles published on the portal! 

Podcasts

Big list of podcasts worth hearing.

Blogs

Big list of blogs worth reading.    

Studying Philosophy: Reasons and Motives

Good, or perhaps just motivating reasons... 

Where to Study Philosophy?

Study philosophy, but where? The agony of choice.

My Experience at the University of Aberdeen

Philosophy in Scotland.This article is bilingual (eg-fr). Cet article est bilingue, parce que si vous vous intéressez aux échanges universitaires, il y a des chances que vous compreniez l’anglais, que vous considérez faire un échange dans un pays ...

Send us your Seminar Papers!

What is actually a good term paper? On this page, students can read other papers, comment on them and get inspired.

meta(φ)

Meta(φ) is the journal from the University of Bern that gets published twice a year. (the site is in german)