a realworld lab for
human-ing
We are a philosophical research and education institute dedicated to exploring how to be human well in a more-than-human world.
Why IPeP exists.
The underlying cause of our current predicaments - social, ecological, individual - is a crisis of human-ing: an existential confusion about how to be human well.
This crisis cannot be resolved through technological, organizational, or political solutions alone. It requires a reorientation at the level of how we live - how we understand reality, how we relate to the living world, 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 practice laboratory where philosophy is lived, tested, and transformed through direct experience. Research that doesn't transform the researcher remains abstract. Practice without theoretical rigor remains anecdotal. IPeP holds both.
why eko?
ego + eco
our work is in service of radical self-authorship (ego) + radical love for the whole (eco)
How We Work.
Life is our lab. We treat life itself as a site of research and transformation. We experiment with what it means to be human well - not theoretically, but through how we actually live. Our own lives serve as real-world laboratories, grounding scholarship in our daily practice of human-ing.
Love is our method. We expand what counts as science. The etymology of science is scientia - knowing. We take seriously that knowledge cannot be reduced to what is measurable and quantifiable. Science and philosophy are both forms of care for truth - for different dimensions of reality. We work to account for the full richness of experience through relational research.
Reality is 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 pink papers, books and publish in peer-reviewed journals.
You can find our latest research results HERE.
PUBLIC AWARENESS
Weekly essays that weave together philosophy, ecology and spirituality to illuminate a practical path for personal and planetary transformation.
PRACTICES
We offer PhilosophyGyms for the INTERESTED PUBLIC as well as for ORGANIZATIONS. These are spaces to practice human-ing well.
