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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

Articles Restoring Our Humanity with John Macmurray Colin Stott contemplates Macmurray’s reunifying thinking. John Macmurray ...

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Angels, humans, the leaves on a tree; is each one unique or just an example of its kind? Peter Pesic explains why Leibniz thought even leaves are individuals. In the long debate on these issues, ...

Chris Wright ponders Plato’s masterplan. One of the purposes of Plato’s Republic is to put forth a conception of the ‘just state’. Plato describes how such a state would be organized, who would govern ...

John Holroyd negotiates a middle way between these two much-lauded figures. Richard Dawkins makes so many claims in The God Delusion (2009) that I have decided to select just two for consideration.

Richard Floyd explains a notorious example of Wittgenstein’s public thought. Wittgenstein is certainly a special case. He is perhaps the only philosopher who could have produced an argument for which ...

Anja Steinbauer explains why Plato had problems with democracy. A lovely boat lazily bobbing up and down on the water, going here and there and nowhere: A nice way of spending a summer Sunday ...