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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the first of our ‘Overview’ series, Mark Daniels describes the latest work on the earliest philosophers. Ancient Philosophy is the name given to early Greek philosophy starting with the inaugural ...

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.

Michael Allen Fox argues that old approaches to the problem don’t work. Who am I? That’s a difficult question to tackle, and each of us must do so for him- or herself, if it is to be tackled at all.

Kile Jones argues that atheistic existentialism is more compelling than religious existentialism. Existentialism, as I understand it, is primarily a philosophy of tragedy. It often speaks of tragedy ...

Generally for existentialists, one is not born anything: everything we are is the result of our choices, as we build ourselves out of our own resources and those which society gives us. We don ’t only ...

Bernard Down explains how two ancient Chinese philosophers explored new perspectives on matters of life and death. Daoism (or Taoism) is both a religion and a philosophy. The religion mixed magic, ...

Taner Edis reviews two books about evolution and design. The intuition that complex objects must be the result of intelligent design remains a major motivation for thinking that our world was created ...

Dr E. R. Klein says we should reconsider the value of space exploration and start getting ready to leave the nest. Everyone is familiar with the giant stone heads of Easter Island, a tiny and remote ...

In his Introduction to Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1837), Hegel argues that there are three ways of doing history. The first of these is original history. Original history refers to ...