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 ...

When environmentalists push to give rivers, whales, or forests legal personhood, the idea sounds both strange and promising. But when such legal recognitions take place, often things can get ...

Curiously, antinatalists often reject not only the imperfect world in which we live, but even hypothetical utopias. Consider a world where disease, war, poverty, and death are eradicated – where ...

‘More songs about Buildings and Food’ was the title of a 1978 album by the rock band Talking Heads. It was about all the things rock stars normally don’t sing about. Pop songs are usually about ...

Brian King follows Popper’s idea of the evolution of knowledge, life and society.

Yolanda De Iuliis looks at how Roman Mithraism incorporated Stoic philosophy. Mithraism’s adoption and integration of Stoic virtues is compelling and noteworthy. These virtues not only shaped the ...

Ethics Goes Awry in Humans and AI • The Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet • Early Adopter of Kierkegaard & Tillich Dies — News reports by Anja Steinbauer ...

Paul Doolan attends to our culture of attention demanding. ‘Listen’ is composed of the same letters as ‘silent’. Listening to another person means falling silent while the other speaks, opening ...

Vikas Beniwal considers some philosophers’ core understandings. When someone asks ‘Who are you?’, it’s tempting to respond with labels, like ‘Asian’, ‘male’, ‘vegetarian’, or ‘student’. These tags are ...

Gerard Elfstrom asks what such creatures, if they exist, would be like and how much it matters morally. For much of Western history, we have been confident that human beings are persons but no other ...

This issue is already found in ancient sceptical thought, most notably in the writings of Sextus Empiricus (160-210 AD). It also illustrates a problem that GWF Hegel considers in his Phenomenology of ...

Mark Vernon chronicles a revolution in consciousness. Why do we think of philosophy originating with the ancient Greeks? After all, it’s clear that the ancient Egyptians, who preceded Pythagoras and ...