by Olga Faccani | Sep 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Foundation for Philosophical Orientation is seeking a motivated Social Media Intern to join our team. This is a remote, part-time position of approximately 5 hours per week at $15/hour, offering flexible scheduling and the opportunity to contribute to an...
by Reinhard Mueller | Aug 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
How is Artificial Intelligence reshaping the way we orient ourselves in the world and in relation to each other? Our new seminar, “Artificial Intelligence and Human Orientation,” organized by Dr. Christoph Durt and Dr. Lucy Osler, will explore these questions in...
by Reinhard Mueller | Aug 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
This summer, members of the Foundation for Philosophical Orientation traveled to Sarzana, Italy, to take part for the third time in the annual MythosLogos Festival organized by Prof. Angelo Tonelli and dedicated to ancient Greek and Roman wisdom, philosophy, art, and...
by Reinhard Mueller | Jul 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
To commit means to take a position in a situation in relation to goals, values, actions, and other people in such a way that doing so shapes the future actions and possibilities of oneself and others. We will explore commitment as a mode of orientation, asking what we...
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 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...
