Student led · Open worldwide · Deadline 15 Dec 2026
Logos is the first Middle-East based philosophy forum for secondary school students to publish essays on a range of philosophical subjects and ideas.
Essays are published in English.
Registering takes ten seconds and commits you to nothing. Ready to enter? Read the Journal FAQ first.
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Our Mission
Logos is a youth-led philosophy organisation working to make philosophy accessible. Most students never encounter it at school, and certainly not in the years when it would do them the most good.
It matters twice over. It sharpens how you think and argue, and it shapes the moral and ethical compass you end up carrying.
So we run three things: a podcast that unpacks difficult ideas with professors and people working in the field, a student-led journal, and a set of introductory resources for anyone starting from nothing.
Upcoming workshop · Places limited
We are running a workshop on how philosophical writing actually works, led by Oxford faculty. It covers building an argument, handling objections and citing properly, and is aimed at anyone who has never written a philosophy essay before.
Places are limited, and students who register their interest get first refusal. Dates will be announced by email to everyone on the register.
Register your interest
Leave your name, email, grade and school so we know how many students to expect. It commits you to nothing, and it puts you first in line for a place at the writing workshop.
Four fields, takes under a minute. We use this only to gauge how many students are interested and which schools they are at. Nothing is shared with anyone outside Logos. Ready to enter properly? Head to the submission guidelines.
“We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes.”
Al-Kindi · 9th centuryDifficult ideas explained plainly, in conversation with professors and people who work in the field.
Explore →Where students publish their own writing on the questions they cannot let go of.
Explore →Starting points for anyone who finds the whole subject a bit forbidding.
Explore →For newcomers
Short reads on the big ideas, written for people with no background at all. Ethics, knowledge, the mind, and the thinkers behind them.
Explore introductory resources →Submissions for our first issue close on 15 December 2026. There is no set theme, so write on whatever philosophical question you want to argue about. Open to high school students worldwide, Grade 9 to Grade 12.
New to submitting? Please read the Journal FAQ before you enter.