Mohsen Moghri gives a Godless but principled response to the problem of evil. We are all familiar with the problem of evil for traditional theism: a perfectly benevolent God would evidently desire the ...

Massimo Pigliucci takes the philosophy pill. Is there a cure for life? This question may seem rather bizarre, as we don’t normally think of life as a disease. And yet, a moment’s reflection reminds us ...

Dr. Gindi, sculptor, has a philosophical conversation with Richard Baron about sensation, life, infinity and, you guessed it, sculpture. Dr. Gindi is one of Switzerland’s foremost sculptors, whose ...

A few weeks ago I bought two chrysanthemums for my windowsill. After giving them the dose of water they clearly missed in the shop, I started musing on how closely plant care and philosophy are ...

She browsed further up the aisle, and stopped to consider the plastic deer: cutouts, less than an inch thick but nearly life-size in height and length. The bucks held their antlered heads high. The ...

John Greenbank searches history for answers to persistent questions. The history of philosophy must be understood as a series of serious intellectual and moral claims about fundamental issues. For ...

Richard Floyd explains a notorious example of Wittgenstein’s public thought. Wittgenstein is certainly a special case. He is perhaps the only philosopher who could have produced an argument for which ...

Already in antiquity Poseidonius stressed the idea that ‘man’ is by nature indispensably dependent on culture. Poseidonius was probably the first author to use the expression ‘second nature’, as a ...

Chad Trainer on the limits of Russell’s views on space exploration. Bertrand Russell was one of the best at chronicling and lampooning history’s opponents of science. Surprisingly, though, he himself ...

Peter Flegel highlights possible connections between early Greek philosophy and the ideas of the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt. Just over a year ago an eager team of archaeologists scoured through the ...

Eugene Earnshaw saves Western philosophy. It was a few years ago that I solved the biggest problem in philosophy. I was teaching undergraduates, and I wanted to blow their minds a little, tear down ...

The following answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book. Sorry if your answer doesn’t appear: we received enough to fill twelve pages… Why are we here? Do we serve a ...