Perhaps Michel Foucault (1926-1984), twentieth century‘specialist in the history of systems of thought’ as he titled himself, was right when he said that the author remains an open question. He was ...

Laura Weed takes us on a tour of the mind/brain controversy. In the twentieth century philosophy of mind became one of the central areas of philosophy in the English-speaking world, and so it remains.

Michael Philips on the shaky foundations of the most popular philosophical theory of modern times. Most academic philosophers these days will tell you, without hesitation, that they are materialists.

Hans Lenk relates to different types of responsibility. In his The Devil’s Dictionary (1911), the well-known satirical writer Ambrose Bierce defined responsibility as: “a detachable burden easily ...

Yahia Lababidi meditates on the aesthetics and ethics of two great contrarians. The externals of their lives could not be more different. One was a celebrated wit and dramatist, the other a reclusive ...

Superhero stories pose an often overlooked dilemma for democratic societies. The hero may stand opposed to crime and corruption; but viewed in a different light he is a vigilante running afoul of the ...

Michael Faust reviews this film in the light of eternity. Is Groundhog Day one of the great philosophical movies? Viewed on the most trivial level it’s just another Hollywood rom-com, but on closer ...

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein links Stoicism and Hip Hop. In principle, to be cool means to remain calm even under stress. But this doesn’t explain why there is now a global culture of cool. What is cool, ...

The following answers to this key philosophical question each win a random book. It is clear that morality is a feature of humanity. However, if morality were objective then every member of our ...

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 ...

Dana Andreicut tells us about their philosophical differences and similiarities. Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged has recently made a comeback after more than half a century, largely due to the ...