r/philosophy is a subreddit with 18.5M members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses philosophy, worst, looking for, struggling, and shorts.
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Popular Themes in r/philosophy
#1
Advice Requests
: "Wrote this for anyone who has ever felt lost on a road nobody else could see."
3 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "“I’m disgusted to be a human”: What to do when you hate your own species according to Buddhism"
2 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "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"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/philosophy
#1
Philosophy
: "/r/Philosophy Open Discussion Thread | June 01, 2026"
112 posts
#2
Worst
24 posts
#3
Looking For
20 posts
#4
Struggling
9 posts
#5
Shorts
8 posts
#6
Psychology
8 posts
#7
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"
7 posts
#8
Existence
: "Aristotle's concept of the mind as a tabula rasa anticipate Sartre's claim that Existence precedes essence"
7 posts
#9
Reality
: "-The Illusion Of Reality: Awakening From The Simulation"
7 posts
#10
Book
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."
18 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
Article [PDF]
: "Massimo Pigliucci: New Atheism and the Scientistic Turn in the Atheism Movement"
2 posts
#6
Podcast
: "Common sense vs reason: when philosophy gets weird - ABC listen"
1 post
#7
Interview
: "Deepfakes and the Ethics of Digital Representation"
1 post
#8
Paper
: "Consciencism, a Philosophy and Ideology for Being in the Technological Age"
1 post
#9
Paper [PDF]
: "Towards a formal regimentation of the Navya-Nyāya technical language by Jonardan Ganeri"
1 post
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Last updated: June 15, 2026