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Peter Keeble causes us to think about causation. There are many areas that might be used to trace the course of Western philosophy. Physical causation – an interesting topic in its own right – is a ...

Andrew Brenner tries to make sense of the question. People have wondered why there is something rather than nothing for a long time. The Rigveda, one of the world’s oldest surviving religious texts, ...

Simon Everson says Immanuel Kant can help with quantum mechanics. Could it be that the ideas of Immanuel Kant offer an insight into one of the latest branches of physics? The strangeness of quantum ...

Sajid Bijapure asks what it does, and what it might do in the future. The word ‘metaphysics’ did not begin as a name for something mysterious. The word originally referred, quite literally, to the ...

Alice Figes agrees with Ernst Bloch that hope can build worlds or destroy them, and philosophy’s task is to tell the difference. Writing in the 1930s, the German philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) ...

Scott F. Parker reflects on philosophy as a preparation for death. The first day I visited my dad in the care facility where he was recovering from a serious infection in his prosthetic aortic valve, ...