We teach & research philosophy as a practical response to the crises of our time.a living lab on:
what does it mean to be human?
ABOUT
IPeP teaches & researches philosophy as a practical response to the crises of our time. We believe that many people are living with a fundamental confusion about how to live ethically, morally, and sustainably. Our approach is to treat life as a lab,conducting experiments that shift philosophy from an intellectual exercise to a tool of personal and social change. Through rigorous academic research, self-guided courses, and thought leadership, we help people treat their own lives as sites of transformation — not just of self, but also of the collective.
WHY WE EXIST.
The underlying cause of our current predicaments — social, ecological, individual — is a crisis of humaning: an existential lostness about how to live and what it means to be human.
This crisis cannot be resolved through technological, organizational, or political solutions alone. It requires a reorientation at the level of daily live itself - how we understand reality, how we relate to our life-worlds, how we embody that understanding in practice. This is, by its nature, philosophical work.
IPeP exists to do this work in two inseparable ways: as a research institute advancing rigorous, peer-reviewed scholarship, and as a realworld laboratory where philosophy as a practical response is lived, tested, and transformed through direct experience.
HOW WE WORK.
LIFE AS OUR LAB. We treat life itself as a site of research and transformation. We experiment with forms of Lebenskunst — not theoretically, but through how we actually live. Our own life-worlds serve as living laboratories, grounding scholarship in our daily practice of living. This means radically testing theories on ourselves.
SCIENCE OF TRANSFORMATION. The etymology of science is scientia — knowing. We practice a science of experience and participation that takes lived, first-person inquiry seriously as a mode of knowing. To do that, we develop a science of transformation where knowledge is not only measured but also encountered — and therefore not owned by institutions, but participatory by nature. This expands who can do science and shape what counts as knowledge. We see science as a participatory becoming that activates attention, responsibility, and agency.
REALITY AS RELATIONAL. We engage more-than-human intelligences as participants. The living world is not a backdrop to human activity but a co-participant in the process of knowing. Our research and practice ground this commitment in both ancient wisdom traditions and latest scientific discoveries.
To that end, we work in three key areas.
OUR KEY AREAS
RESEARCH
We create conceptual papers, books and publish in peer-reviewed journals.
You can find our latest research results HERE.
PRACTICES
We offer PhilosophyGyms for the INTERESTED PUBLIC as well as for ORGANIZATIONS. These are spaces to practice sense-making.
