Mary Gregg considers how our language influences us to think about knowledge. I want to draw your attention to the way language shapes our interaction with knowledge. Since my goal is not to show what ...

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.

Bob Harrison questions his identity. Hello, you, this is me – and that’s him. But what are you? And what am I? And what is he? Three questions, and in each case ...

Shashwat Mishra explores the limits of perception via the Molyneux problem. The Molyneux problem is a philosophical thought experiment that has been the subject of debate for centuries. It poses this ...

It was September of 1998, and I was a dewy-eyed sophomore who had bluffed his way into Richard Rorty’s seminar on William James and Friedrich Nietzsche. I had taken philosophy courses before, but ...

James Blish won the Hugo Award in 1959 for his novel A Case of Conscience. In this short book, his main character is a Jesuit priest, Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez, who is sent to the planet Lithia with a ...

The first English version of a classic essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, originally published in Janus #9, 1933. Translated from the Norwegian by Gisle R. Tangenes. One night in long bygone times, man ...

Phil Badger guides us through the varieties of liberalism, historical and philosophical. The big ideas of political philosophy are often hard to get clear in our minds, and there is no better example ...

Audren Layeux follows the doomed quest for state emancipation of the self. The contemporary world has given birth to a growing feeling of helplessness. Globalisation, once portrayed as promising a ...

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 ...

Sam Woolfe asks if pessimism is a proper response to life or a symptom of depression. If you have a pessimistic philosophical outlook on the world then it makes sense that you would also feel ...

Eva Cybulska dispells popular misconceptions about this controversial figure. “Man is a rope, fastened between animal and Übermensch – a rope over an abyss.” For Nietzsche, the idea of Übermensch was ...