Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad, lawyer and theologian, is well-known in Iran for bringing religion closer to the people, AmirAli Maleki asks him about Islam and philosophy. What is Islamic philosophy? What ...

The following answers to this artful question each win a random book. Art is something we do, a verb. Art is an expression of our thoughts, emotions, intuitions, and desires, but it is even more ...

Massimo Pigliucci surveys the views of ancient schools. As we all know, the telos of life is eudaimonia. Or to use English, the goal of life is happiness. This immediately leads to two crucial ...

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In a clearing on the edge of the woods, a flying saucer stands on spindly legs among the still-smouldering vegetation. A door slides open, ...

Ross Naidoo looks at Indigenous thinking through a philosophical lens. The Indigenous or Aboriginal peoples of Australia speak several hundred distinct languages, distributed across a vast continent.

Buddhists paint vivid depictions of different forms of life: hungry ghosts at the peripheries of our world, or subterranean hell dwellers, for example. Such portrayals challenge modern sensibilities, ...

Gerardo Posada considers some of the philosophical benefits of green spaces. One of the most important tasks of the philosopher, if not the most important, is to think. Nature presents her with a ...

Each answer below receives a random book. Apologies to the entrants not included. If there is an omnipotent and benevolent God, then moral commands issued by that God would exist independently of our ...

Colin Stott contemplates Macmurray’s reunifying thinking. John Macmurray (1891-1976) was a widely respected Scottish philosopher who gained a certain notoriety for his attacks on the philosophical ...

John Creigan considers whether hope helps us thrive or holds us back. Hope is often celebrated as one of humanity’s greatest virtues – a force that sustains us through adversity by fuelling dreams of ...

Prominent feminist and social philosopher Sandra Harding died on 5th March 2025 at the age of 89. Harding was a professor at the University of Delaware from 1975 to 1996, then at UCLA until 2014 , ...

‘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 ...