One familiar definition of a metaphor is that it is essentially a figure of speech which uses one thing to mean another by ...

Fiction Cave Girl Principles Larry Chan takes us back to the dawn of thought. Stick was curled on a rock jutting out of the ...

The fact that one was deceived by adults about the existence of Santa, yet eventually discovered the deception, is good evidence that one is developing the ability to find and discard false beliefs.

The Art of Living Seneca On Anger Massimo Pigliucci tells us how to avoid becoming irate. Got an anger problem? If you decide to read just one book on the topic, it should be On A ...

Mike Austin listens to Bono while reading Kierkegaard, and discovers that they have the same soul. The death of his mother had a huge impact on him and on the substance of his writings. He became ...

Howard Kainz thinks the Ghost in the Machine might in fact be an angel. If the title seems strange, some background information may help to clarify things: To fulfill the requirements for my Master’s ...

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 ...

Chris Christensen argues that two basic philosophical opposites were harmoniously united in the thought of Democritus (460-370 BC). I’m fascinated by the faultline of dualism that runs through the ...

Annina Lehmann argues that wearing lipstick is a choice which shows that though we’re influenced by society, we can still make decisions about who we want to be. Sit on a city train on a normal ...

Debra Trione encourages American leaders to make their visions of utopia real. The idea of ‘America’ is the idea of a perpetually perfectible world: “a more perfect union,” states the US Constitution; ...

Alejandra Mancilla uses an example from Robert Nozick to question the claims to ownership made by breeders of genetically modified organisms. John Locke’s justification of property rights started with ...

Brian Morris deplores John Moore and friends’ views on Nietzsche and anarchism. This interesting collection of essays, mostly by male academic philosophers, is largely an attempt to convince us that ...