Faith, Reason, and Science
August 2, 2009
Does faith obscure reason? Does reason obscure faith? Or perhaps their subject matters are different.…
Democracy By Numbers
November 1, 2026
Despite adhering to the principle of “one person, one vote,” elections in the United States are often highly contentious: presidents can be elected after losing the popular vote, there is widespread gerrymandering and voter purging, and not everyone has equal representation in the Senate. So…
Love, Poetry and Philosophy
July 19, 2009
For Plato, love and philosophy were closely related. Love of beauty causes one to contemplate…
Artificial Intelligence
June 28, 2009
At least some versions of artificial intelligence are attempts not merely to model human intelligence,…
Philosophy Through Humor
June 21, 2009
Why did Nietzsche cross the road? To get beyond good and evil! How is a…
Summer Reading List 2009
June 14, 2009
Even if you’re not going to Biarritz for the summer as usual, you can relax…
The Mind and the World
June 7, 2009
What kinds of contact can the mind have with the world? Can we know how…
Flirting with Philosophy
May 31, 2009
What is flirting? Can you flirt without intending to? Can you flirt by dressing a…
Aging and the Well-Lived Life
May 24, 2009
Aging is a physical process that will always be with us. But conceptions of aging,…
Capital Punishment
April 26, 2009
The death penalty: An effective deterrent? A just retribution for horrendous crimes? Or a racist,…
Can Science Explain Consciousness?
April 19, 2009
Humans are conscious, billiard balls are not, and computers aren’t either. But all three are…
Where Does Morality Come From?
March 29, 2009
Time is the most familiar thing in the world, and yet philosophically one of the…
The Root of All Evil?
March 29, 2009
Money makes the world go around. But what sort of thing is money? Bits of…
Science, Ethics, and Censorship
March 22, 2009
Science is, on the one hand, a huge enterprise funded to a great extent by…
The Copyright Wars
March 22, 2009
Today there is an entire generation of people who have never paid for music. From…
Skepticism
March 15, 2009
Various forms of skepticism play important roles in the history of philosophy. Do we really…
Immortality and the Afterlife
February 15, 2009
Many religions contemplate some form of personal continued existence after death: reincarnation in another body,…
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