The 2026 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy goes to Laurie Anderson

The Inamori Foundation has honoured the artist known for work joining electronic music, performance, poetry and film. The ceremony takes place in Japan on 10 November.

The 2026 Holberg Prize goes to the historian Lyndal Roper

Regius Professor of History at Oxford, Roper was honoured for her work on witch hunts, the German Peasants' War and Luther.

New York Times: 'The revenge of the philosophy major'

The paper's July piece examined how philosophy, long dismissed as the subject that leads nowhere, has regained standing in the job market.

Harari's graphic Sapiens series continues in November with a fourth volume

'The Age of Revolutions', the next volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, is out in November. The third book in his children's series Unstoppable Us appeared in February.

Yuval Noah Harari

A philosophy of risk from Duncan Pritchard: 'not probability but fragility'

'Tempting Fate', published by Princeton University Press, proposes a theory that explains risk through fragility rather than probability. Pritchard's example is Alex Honnold's ropeless ascent of El Capitan.

Duncan Pritchard

First open-access journal for mathematical philosophy founded

The Journal of Mathematical Philosophy, published by the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU, has begun accepting submissions on a 'diamond' open-access model that charges neither authors nor readers.

The hero of Paul Schrader's new film is a philosophy professor

'The Basics of Philosophy', directed by Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, screens out of competition at the Venice Film Festival on 4 September. At its centre is a philosophy professor living with the guilt of a decision made long ago.