r/philosophy is a subreddit with 18.5M members. The most common kinds of discussions are pain & anger and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses philosophy, looking for, worst, ai, and reality.
/r/philosophy: the portal for public philosophy
Popular Themes in r/philosophy
#1
Pain & Anger
: "RoboCop (1987) is a highly philosophical critique of the corporate logic that treats human beings as a cost to be eliminated, and it's the same logic now driving automation and the war on workers."
2 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Please help to save the philosophy programme at Dundee University"
2 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "Philosophy student who built a platform where you can discuss life problems through different philosophy lenses."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/philosophy
#1
Philosophy
: "Please help to save the Philosophy programme at Dundee University"
115 posts
#2
Looking For
20 posts
#3
Worst
19 posts
#4
Ai
: "A writing and rhetoric professor uses Enheduanna, Plato, and Aristotle to argue that Ai text doesn't meet ancient definitions of "writing" - all three viewed writing as transformative process emerging from thought and experience"
10 posts
#5
Reality
: "[Case Study] Gabriele Oettingen, Friedrich Nietzsche, James Stockdale, and C.R. Snyder all hit the exact same wall: "staying positive" without facing Reality doesn't build resilience. It builds paralysis."
9 posts
#6
Existence
: "Aristotle's concept of the mind as a tabula rasa anticipate Sartre's claim that Existence precedes essence"
7 posts
#7
Life
: "The Case Against Longevity. “I think they might have entirely missed the point of what Life is about.""
7 posts
#8
Book
6 posts
#9
Good
6 posts
#10
Struggling
6 posts
Flair Used in r/philosophy
#1
Blog
: "I don’t want children. I do want children. Exploring how to know if you truly want to be a parent."
28 posts
#2
Video
: "RoboCop (1987) is a highly philosophical critique of the corporate logic that treats human beings as a cost to be eliminated, and it's the same logic now driving automation and the war on workers."
9 posts
#3
Open Thread
: "/r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | June 01, 2026"
6 posts
#4
Book Review
: "One of history’s greatest ironies is that a society which would eventually become one of the world’s most hypermodern was born from an attempt to spread the very faith that Niccolo Machiavelli himself labored so hard to kill."
2 posts
#5
Interview
: "Nick Bostrom Personal Interview Discussing Simulation Argument (and diet and music)"
2 posts
#6
Paper [PDF]
: "From grammar tools to rhetorical Co-Agents: There is an ontological shift occurring as advanced digital machines increasingly mediate human health, desire, and knowledge through Digital Rhetoric"
2 posts
#7
News
: "Please help to save the philosophy programme at Dundee University"
1 post
#8
Article [PDF]
: "Massimo Pigliucci: New Atheism and the Scientistic Turn in the Atheism Movement"
1 post
#9
Paper
: "Consciencism, a Philosophy and Ideology for Being in the Technological Age"
1 post
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Last updated: June 26, 2026