r/philosophy is a subreddit with 18.6M members. The most common kinds of discussions are pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses looking for, worst, philosophy, book, and good.
/r/philosophy: the portal for public philosophy
Popular Themes in r/philosophy
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Pain & Anger
: ""Stop Moralizing Air Conditioning" — How Institutions Shift Responsibility Onto Individuals"
3 posts
Popular Topics in r/philosophy
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Looking For
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Worst
19 posts
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Philosophy
17 posts
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Book
6 posts
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Good
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Struggling
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Ethics
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Annoying
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History
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Hate
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Flair Used in r/philosophy
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Blog
: "I don’t want children. I do want children. Exploring how to know if you truly want to be a parent."
39 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."
10 posts
#3
Open Thread
: "/r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | June 01, 2026"
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#4
Interview
: "Nick Bostrom Personal Interview Discussing Simulation Argument (and diet and music)"
2 posts
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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
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News
: "Please help to save the philosophy programme at Dundee University"
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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."
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Paper
: "Consciencism, a Philosophy and Ideology for Being in the Technological Age"
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Last updated: July 17, 2026