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

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.

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 ...

Philip Goff discusses a thought-experiment about consciousness. For the last five hundred years or so physics has been doing extraordinarily well. More and more of our world has been captured in its ...

Our philosophical science correspondent Massimo Pigliucci reports. Unfortunate it may be, but despite the spectacular successes of modern science, there is no ultimate foundation for our knowledge of ...

Derek Harrison compares radically alternative visions of the absolute. “I saw eternity the other night. Like a great ring of pure and endless light.” – Henry Vaughan Vaughan’s simile is an attempt to ...

The following responses to this basic ethical question each win a random book. To understand how acquire have moral knowledge, we first need to understand what sort of thing we are talking about when ...

Mike Austin listens to Bono while reading Kierkegaard, and discovers that they have the same soul. The death of his mother had a huge impact on him and on the substance of his writings. He became ...

Once a year in mid-July the city of Durham abandons its habitual reserve and becomes the scene of the Durham Miners’ Gala. This year the gala coincided with another meeting of labourers who spend most ...

Richard Rorty is perhaps the best-known living philosopher in the Pragmatic tradition, and one of the most talked-about thinkers of the present day. He is a philosophy professor at Stanford University ...

Dane Gordon on a forgotten philosopher who practiced what he preached. Aristippus is remembered in the history of Western philosophy as the founder of hedonism, that is, as the first person to propose ...