What is Beauty?
December 27, 2005
Are there objective standards of beauty? Or is beauty in the eye of the beholder?…
What Is Game Theory?
August 16, 2026
Game theory is a set of mathematical techniques for thinking about how people should choose when their choices interact. But real people aren’t exactly rational actors. Can a mathematical model explain real-world decisions? How can game theorists account for the fact that we don’t always…
The Erotic vs. The Pornographic
December 20, 2005
Erotic experience is a human good. Mature, consenting adults should be able to explore the…
The Existence of God
December 20, 2005
The question of whether or not God exists is profoundly fascinating and important. What are…
Gender
November 15, 2005
Are gender roles and differences fixed, once and for, all by biology? Or is gender…
Is This Any Way to Run a Democracy?
November 8, 2005
America prides itself on being the oldest continuous democracy in the world. But criticisms of…
Love
October 25, 2005
Is love just a (second-hand) emotion? Is it a feeling? A disparate group of feelings, glandular responses,…
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief
October 18, 2005
Why don’t we run out of the movie theatre when a monster shows on the…
Ethics in War
September 27, 2005
After World War II the Nurenberg trials and the conventions that arose out of them…
Language of Politics
September 20, 2005
Politics, especially American politics, puts pressure on words like “liberal”, “conservative” and “values” as they…
Dignity and the End of Life
September 13, 2005
Is physician assisted suicide morally okay? What about active euthanasia for patients suffering terminal illnesses?…
Karl Marx
September 6, 2005
The ideas of Karl Marx vie with those of Rousseau, Locke and Jefferson for shaping…
Saints, Heroes, and Well-Lived Lives
August 30, 2005
Some actions are right, and some are wrong. But aren’t some even better than right—the…
Virtue
August 23, 2005
What is virtue? Is virtue the key human happiness and flourishing, as the ancients held, or…
Disability
August 16, 2005
The Americans with Disabilities Act recognizes that people with disabilities are often prevented from leading…
The Environment and Global Justice
August 9, 2005
Our current way of life is unsustainable. Depletion of the ozone layer, the dwindling of…
Descartes
August 2, 2005
The 17th Century philosopher Rene Descartes is often considered the father of modern philosophy. His Meditations are…
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