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The latest and most popular Essays from Aeon. Longform articles on philosophy, psychology, science, society, history and the arts, written by the world’s leading thinkers.
Philosophy — Latest | Aeon
Philosophy Essays from Aeon. World-leading thinkers explore life’s big questions and the history of ideas from Socrates to Simone de Beauvoir, political philosophy to philosophy of mind, the Western …
Why we should tune into the orchestra of the animal world - Aeon
Sep 4, 2025 · Listen to the boundless sounds of nature, the great animal orchestra, whose songs imbue the world with fresh meaning
What we think is a decline in literacy is a design problem - Aeon
Feb 19, 2026 · Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time
Psychopathy is a zombie idea. Why does it cling on? - Aeon
Feb 27, 2026 · Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on?
The moral risk of prediction markets for weather catastrophes - Aeon
Mar 27, 2026 · As prediction markets turn disasters into tradable bets, what do we lose? This essay explores the real cost of monetising weather catastrophes.
How do we deal with the catastrophe of uninsurability? - Aeon
Mar 3, 2026 · Whole regions of the world are now uninsurable, bringing radical uncertainty to the economy. How do we fix the problem?
Far from junk: the clock in our DNA and its discoverer - Aeon
Mar 24, 2026 · The biologist Victoria Foe discovered a timing device in ‘junk’ DNA that could unlock the evolution of complex life
How should we define mathematical beauty in the AI age? - Aeon
Mar 9, 2026 · Is mathematical beauty real? Or is it just a subjective, human ‘wow’ that is becoming redundant in an AI age?