WHY IPeP exists.

We develop resources to help people live philosophically.

While psychological and physical health in the context of climate change, species extinction, and many other of our current predicaments are becoming increasingly recognized and understood, philosophical health is under-represented and under-researched. IPeP closes this gap with the following goals:

  • Enhancing philosophical health as a meta-technology to psychological and physiological well-being.

  • Facilitating the integration of inner (philosophical) dimensions to foster healthy futures, supplementing technological, organizational, and political solutions.

  • Mainstreaming the significance of practical philosophy in addressing the underlying causes of the challenges of our times.

  • Establishing a robust framework for practical philosophy and its role in shaping healthy futures through peer-reviewed publications.

Many of us are simply too busy and exhausted to live a life that serves personal & planetary health.

We need a “curriculum for living life as a lab” – an exploratory process that goes beyond simple solutionism, that acknowledges that life is messy, complex and unpredictable and that real self-transformation is possible.

OUR APPROACH.

  • Philosophy as A Way of Life: we see philosophy as a practice and with life itself serving as the living laboratory for this practice. Philosophy must be entangled in everyday life.

  • Rewilding Philosophy: we include voices in the philosophical discourse that are often largely overlooked. This include not only Indigenous knowledges and the perspectives of marginalized human groups but also insights from the more-than-human world. For instance, what can water teach us about how to show up in life. We also include other ways of knowing beyond the conceptual and analytical.

  • ekoPhilosophy: we belief that any healthy philosophy must be grounded in: relationality, post-humanism, indigeneity, multispecies approaches, developmental approaches, process philosophy, new materialism, 4(+2)E cognition, interbeing, quantum physics and biosemiotics (among others).