Emrys Westacott asks a probing question. Imagine that right after briefing Adam about which fruit was allowed and which forbidden, God had installed a closed-circuit television camera in the garden of ...

Peter Sjöstedt-H introduces Whitehead’s organic awareness of reality. The philosophy of organism is the name of the metaphysics of the mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. Born in ...

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 ...

Laura Weed takes us on a tour of the mind/brain controversy. In the twentieth century philosophy of mind became one of the central areas of philosophy in the English-speaking world, and so it remains.

Noson Yanofsky tells us how to deal with contradictions and the limitations of reason that arise from them. We all have conflicting desires. We want to get promoted, but don’t want to work too hard.

Stephen Anderson asks what we mean when we ask if existence has a meaning. In their 1983 film The Meaning of Life, Monty Python took their departing shot at the movie-going public, and simultaneously ...

Dr E. R. Klein says we should reconsider the value of space exploration and start getting ready to leave the nest. Everyone is familiar with the giant stone heads of Easter Island, a tiny and remote ...

Gisle Tangenes describes the life and ideas of a cheerfully pessimistic, mountain-climbing Norwegian existentialist. “This world,” mused Horace Walpole, “is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to ...

And how does language work anyway? Antony Tomlinson weighs the arguments. Languages seem an important feature of our lives. The languages we speak determine who we can communicate with, where we can ...

Laura Purdy considers some of the problems associated with animal organ transfer. In January 2003, U.S. scientist Randall Prather announced that he had successfully cloned a miniature pig lacking the ...

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein links Stoicism and Hip Hop. In principle, to be cool means to remain calm even under stress. But this doesn’t explain why there is now a global culture of cool. What is cool, ...

Stephen Leach considers what Bertrand Russell thought about common sense & reality – and how the one does not necessarily show you the other. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) believed that reality is ...