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 Olga Faccani | Jun 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Congratulations to Keren Bester, our FPO Fellow 2025-26! 🎉 Keren Lucy Bester is a PhD candidate at the University of Dundee (UK) working at the intersection of olfaction, ontology and orientation. Her project, titled Smelling Metaphysical Lies, reimagines our...
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 PR@hfpo.com | Mar 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Welcome to the newest member of our advisory council, Dr. Douglas Giles, PhD!🎉🎉🎉‼️ Dr. Douglas Giles is an adjunct assistant professor of philosophy at Elmhurst University where he teaches part-time to be able to devote more time to research and writing. He studied...
by Olga Faccani | Mar 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
In a brand new essay, Prof. Kathleen Higgins explores the profound disorientation caused by grief and examines how aesthetic experiences—such as rituals, art, and storytelling—can serve as powerful tools for reorientation. Drawing on Stegmaier’s insights into the...
