Esmé L. K. Partridge

Esmé L. K. Partridge is an MPhil student in the Philosophy of Religion at Clare College, University of Cambridge. Her research interests include Islamic thought, Neoplatonism, and the history of religious pluralism in Western philosophy. She has previously written for The Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, The Temenos Academy Review and First Things, among other publications. She also works for a London-based consultancy where she focuses on religious freedom and interfaith dialogue, having recently authored a policy document on faith-based approaches to freedom of religion.

Esmé L. K. Partridge

The Ancient Roots of Transhumanist Thinking

Lenn E. Goodman, an expert on Jewish and Islamic metaphysics, joins Esme Partridge to discuss the philosophical heritage of AI—which he locates in the medieval and renaissance study of alchemy—and the implications of our rapid embrace of AI.

What Pico Thought—and What It Wrought

Reflections on Pico della Mirandola’s “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

Rethinking the World Brain

Can We Preserve Traditional Forms of Knowledge in the Digital Age?

Transcendence and TikTok

Spirituality in the Postmodern World

The Reign of the Nafs