Mohsen Moghri gives a Godless but principled response to the problem of evil. We are all familiar with the problem of evil for traditional theism: a perfectly benevolent God would evidently desire the ...

Massimo Pigliucci tells us how to advance ethically. When Cicero (106-43 BCE) translated the Greek word ēthos into Latin as moralis, he preserved a fundamental concept: how we conduct ourselves in ...

Joe R.R. Angelitis overhears a heated political discussion in aisle fifty-one. Harley Fuentes fingered the price tag of a concrete frog in aisle fifty-one of the Great Garden Super Store, then ...

Christine Avery wonders whether poetry can help us to deal with science. In his poetic autobiography The Prelude (1799), William Wordsworth describes a dream in which he saw an Arab horseman riding by ...

Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 was published over seventy years ago, in 1953, and yet continues to be a source of controversy, being banned by many school boards, libraries, and other ...

Stephen L. Anderson laments inadequate moral insight among tech leaders. For many of us the world’s first global pandemic for a century was a watershed moment. The Covid-19 crisis was plausibly ...

AmirAli Maleki listens to music from an Islamic perspective. Perhaps the most important pre-requisite for doing good philosophy is awareness, depth and precision concerning our everyday lives and ...

Raymond Tallis finds he’s an improbably accidental being. A few years ago, as I was setting out on holiday, I looked at the departure board and noticed a flight flagged up for Florence. This reminded ...

AmirAli Maleki considers how Islamic thought changed. The place of women in Islam has always been controversial, especially as Islamic thinkers were always trying to describe the role of women using ...

A few weeks ago I bought two chrysanthemums for my windowsill. After giving them the dose of water they clearly missed in the ...