by Reinhard Mueller | Jul 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
From its very beginnings, philosophy has wrestled with the question of its nature and its own limitations. Every philosophy orients itself from a particular standpoint – within specific perspectives and horizons. In terms of the philosophy of orientation, it is only...
by Reinhard Mueller | Jul 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
The world is undergoing profound disorientations: geopolitical upheaval, mass migrations, climate change, and economic instability are converging to form a landscape of overlapping crises. In response, How to Orient Oneself in Times of Multiple Crises? brings together...
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...
