by Reinhard Mueller | Mar 31, 2026 | Uncategorized
Conflicts today are often caused by deep disagreements — disagreements in which opposing sides no longer share basic truths, beliefs, plausibilities, or criteria of relevance. In these cases, arguments fail not because participants are uninformed or irrational, but...
by Saskia Neumann | Mar 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
Thank you to everyone who participated in our Photo Competition on the topic of Horizon. The submissions showed how many different ways a horizon can appear — as a landscape line, a threshold, a boundary, or a moment of possibility. In the philosophy of orientation, a...
by Saskia Neumann | Jan 29, 2026 | Uncategorized
The horizon is the line that lets a world appear, and it is also the limit we rarely notice. It quietly frames what we can take in at all—what becomes visible, meaningful, and orienting from where we stand. And it has a peculiar logic. The moment you try to look at...
by Reinhard Mueller | Jan 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
What shapes our identity today? How does the academic industry influence philosophy and our pursuit of wisdom? In this new podcast episode, Hans-Georg Moeller and Reinhard G. Mueller discuss Moeller’s theory of profilicity and the three identity technologies –...
by Reinhard Mueller | Dec 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
Today we assume that change in all areas of life, including its most basic conditions, will continue to accelerate. How can we manage to continually reorient ourselves? Can philosophy understand how to keep up with the times? Orientation is, in principle, the...
by Reinhard Mueller | Dec 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
From their very beginnings, philosophy and biology have wrestled with the fundamental questions of what “life” is and who we are as human beings – ranging from conceptions of the human being as souls transcending the physical world via entities governed by mechanistic...
by Reinhard Mueller | Dec 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Before the holidays and winter approached, a small group from our foundation met in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in order to deeply explore one of the most challenging philosophical questions: What are the limits of philosophy today? Philosophy, as the love and pursuit of...
by Saskia Neumann | Oct 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
What if “getting unstuck” isn’t one method but a set of frameworks you can learn to compare—and combine—on purpose? This discussion-based seminar examines how philosophical counseling, psychotherapy, and coaching each conceptualize reorientation: changing patterns of...
by Reinhard Mueller | Oct 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
Orientation is, in principle, the achievement of finding one’s way in an unsurveyable and uncertain situation so that one can successfully master the situation. It involves finding paths both in the terrain and through all the circumstances of human life: not only our...
by Reinhard Mueller | Sep 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
In this new podcast episode, philosophy professor Kathleen Higgins joins Reinhard G. Mueller to discuss Kathleen’s new profound book publication, entitled Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning: Philosophical Reflections on Coping with Loss (2024). They explore why...
