Thoughts on Thought Iain McGilchrist’s Naturalized Metaphysics Rogério Severo looks at the brain to see the world anew. It ...

Joseph Butler was an 18th century clergyman who left an indelible mark on moral philosophy but isn’t as widely remembered today as he deserves. David White scoured England and Ireland for traces of ...

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Ralph Blumenau reviews Bryan Magee’s philosophical autobiography. Confessions can be of two kinds: confessions of faith and confessions of failure. Bryan Magee’s vividly written intellectual ...

Thoughts on Thought From Birds To Brains Jonathan Moens considers whether emergence can explain minds from brains. One ...

Most people have felt the gap between the consciousness of love and the physical aspects of love. Science, even if it could ...

Michael Philips on the shaky foundations of the most popular philosophical theory of modern times. Most academic philosophers these days will tell you, without hesitation, that they are materialists.

Ching-Hung Woo looks at the many facets of Albert Einstein’s approach to ethics. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) regarded morality as indispensable to the survival of humanity, and he devoted considerable ...

Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872) started out as a student of theology but went on to articulate one of the most interesting critiques of religion we have. In his major work The Essence of Christianity ...

Christopher Perricone says that the short answer is “Yes” and the long answer is this article. Many books about art and the philosophy of art include discussions of artistic materials. By artistic ...

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 ...

It has now been almost 45 years since John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. In September 1964, the Report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of ...