One familiar definition of a metaphor is that it is essentially a figure of speech which uses one thing to mean another by ...

In recent years, amidst a backdrop of growing secularization and cultural diversity, atheism has emerged as an prominent ...

The problem of evil is one of the most profound philosophical challenges to the belief in an omnipotent God. How can the ...

Articles Seeing & Knowing Shashwat Mishra explores the limits of perception via the Molyneux problem. The Molyneux problem is ...

Tallis in Wonderland “I refute it thus” Raymond Tallis kicks immaterialism into touch. Readers may be familiar with Bishop ...

Fiction Cave Girl Principles Larry Chan takes us back to the dawn of thought. Stick was curled on a rock jutting out of the ...

The fact that one was deceived by adults about the existence of Santa, yet eventually discovered the deception, is good evidence that one is developing the ability to find and discard false beliefs.

Robert Stern FBA (1962-2024) was a British philosopher who served as a professor of philosophy at the University of Sheffield ...

One definition of ‘computer’ is, ‘one who computes’. So you can make a conscious computer by procreating! Your conscious offspring, suitably educated, will be capable of elaborate computation, maybe ...

The Art of Living Seneca On Anger Massimo Pigliucci tells us how to avoid becoming irate. Got an anger problem? If you decide to read just one book on the topic, it should be On A ...

Marc Champagne argues that the supposedly ’professional’ style of the analytic tradition does not ensure professionalism, nor indeed, clear-mindedness. “I hope there will always be, included in ...

Samuel Kaldas compares two views on the nature of animals and their implications for our moral responsibility towards them. “No one understands animals who does not see that every one of them, even ...