Articles The Success & Failure of Non-Violence Yoav Tenembaum asks when a policy of non-violence is feasible. Non-violence as a policy is based on the moral postulate that the use of force is ...

Wittgenstein The Private Language Argument Richard Floyd explains a notorious example of Wittgenstein’s public thought. Wittgenstein is certainly a special case. He is perhaps the only philosopher who ...

Emrys Westacott asks a probing question.Law, Tolerance and Society Does Surveillance Make Us Morally Better? Emrys Westacott asks a probing question. Imagine that right after briefing Adam about which ...

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, ...

Reading, Writing, Thinking The Twin Souls of Oscar Wilde and Friedrich Nietzsche Yahia Lababidi meditates on the aesthetics and ethics of two great contrarians. The externals of their lives could not ...

Mary Daly is a world-renowned Radical Feminist philosopher, theologian and author. Professor Daly, what is Radical Feminism? Well, I actually define that in my Wickedary, which is a ‘dictionary for ...

Articles An Essay on Nothing Sophia Gottfried meditates on the emptiness of non-existence. In philosophy there is a lot of emphasis on what exists. We call this ontology, which means, the study of ...

Question of the Month What Is The Nature Of Reality? The following readers’ answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book. What’s the problem? Isn’t it enough that things are ...

Articles The Universe Is Made Of Mathematics Sam Woolfe recounts the mathematical metaphysics of physicist Max Tegmark. Max Tegmark is a Swedish-American cosmologist currently teaching at MIT. He has ...

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 ...

Articles The Philosophy of Organism 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 ...

Books Driving the Ghost from the Machine Alan Brody reviews The Metaphysics of Mind by Anthony Kenny. The most famous theory in the philosophy of mind is René Descartes’ view that each human being ...