Brains & Minds Philosophy of Mind: An Overview 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 ...

Paul Edwards disagrees with Kant in this recently-discovered paper. All Enlightenment thinkers who wrote on the subject – Hume, Voltaire and Rousseau among others – agreed that the religious ...

Articles How I Solved Hume’s Problem and Why Nobody Will Believe Me Eugene Earnshaw saves Western philosophy. It was a few years ago that I solved the biggest problem in philosophy. I was teaching ...

Ethics in Society Prison Doesn’t Work Stuart Greenstreet on the abysmal failure of theories about crime and punishment. Prison doesn’t work. Theories about the punishment of lawbreakers fail in ...

Humor The Nature of Laughing at Ourselves Mordechai Gordon takes ideas about not taking ourselves too seriously seriously. To date, philosophers have concentrated much more on trying to account for ...

The Death of Morality Morality is a Culturally Conditioned Response Jesse Prinz argues that the source of our moral inclinations is merely cultural. Suppose you have a moral disagreement with someone, ...

Articles The View from Mount Zapffe Gisle Tangenes describes the life and ideas of a cheerfully pessimistic, mountain-climbing Norwegian existentialist. “This world,” mused Horace Walpole, “is a ...

Articles What is natural about Natural Rights? Do Natural Rights exist? Michael Birshan investigates one of the more persistent political assertions of the modern world in this prize-winning essay.

Question of the Month What Is The Meaning Of Life? 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 ...

Articles What Good Is Nature? David Dobereiner reviews the history of the nature of Nature. In Friedrich Nietzsche’s book Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883), Zarathustra might have said “God is not dead, ...

Articles What Did Mary Know? Marina Gerner on a thought experiment about consciousness. Imagine a girl called Mary. She is a brilliant neuroscientist and a world expert on colour vision. But because ...

Plato and Democracy Plato’s Ideal Ruler Today Mark Tan shows us how to overcome our distrust and cynicism towards governments through the appointment of philosopher kings. We live at a time when there ...