by Reinhard Mueller | Jul 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
“There is more reason in your body than in your deepest wisdom,” Nietzsche wrote in his Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Our current FPO Fellow, Jes Heppler, explores what kind of wisdom our body offers in her dissertation on “Gut Feelings and Embodied...
by Reinhard Mueller | May 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
We invite submissions for our 2025–2026 Philosophical Essay Prize Competition which centers on the question: Is the Left-Right Distinction Still Useful for Political Orientation? Once central to debates from the French Revolution to the Cold War, this binary is now...
by Reinhard Mueller | May 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Michael Lewin’s new essay, “Orientation by Means of Original Word Forms and Meanings,” offers a deep and nuanced reflection on how the origins of language shape the way we orient ourselves in the world. Through a rich etymological exploration, Lewin...
by Reinhard Mueller | Oct 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Today, we are thrilled to celebrate the 5th birthday of the Foundation for Philosophical Orientation. On this day, five years ago, on October 25, 2019, we inaugurated our foundation in Nashville’s Parthenon, marking the beginning of an incredible journey. On...
by Reinhard Mueller | Sep 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Check out our newest podcast with FPO’s dissertation fellow 2023-24, Nicolás Wiggenhauser. Host Reinhard G. Mueller discusses with him the scientific field of evolutionary neuroscience, his dissertation project on “The Macroevolution of the Striatum in Mammals...
