Harley Schwadron’s Cartoon

by Harley Schwadron

Utilitarian Strategies

A comic by Corey Mohler about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world.

Simon & Finn

by Melissa Felder

When Animals Dream by David M. Pena-Guzman

Nick Everitt is skeptical about animals dreaming.

Remembering Memory

Raymond Tallis examines a miracle of mentality.

Jeffrey Raff

Jungian psychoanalyst and author, shares some insights and analysis with Arianna Marchetti.

Debating the A Priori by Paul Boghossian & Timothy Williamson

Teresa Britton debates with debates about reasoning.

Ethical Truth in Light of Quantum Mechanics

Iain King and Myles King contend that physics helps us understand ethics.

Consequentialism at the Pearly Gates

by Daniel Galef

The Opposite of Virtue

by Yahia Lababidi

Right & Wrong About Right & Wrong

Paul Stearns argues against moral relativism and moral presentism.

Who’s To Say?

Michael-John Turp asks if anyone has the authority to establish moral truth.

The Cognitive Gap

Justin Bartlett explores a basic distinction between understandings of ethics.

Philosophers on Baths

by Matt Qvortrup

News: June/July 2023

Big Brother learns to read your mind • Philosophy teachers resolve to associate • Scottish ethicists back euthanasia bill — News reports by Anja Steinbauer

Can You Be Both A Moral Rationalist & A Moral Sentimentalist?

Andrew Kemle says that evolutionary forces give us the answer.

Nima Adlerblum (1881-1974)

Brad Rappaport looks at the life of a Jewish philosopher combatting the secular forces of modernism.

Back to the Sophists

Nana Ariel corrects the record and the modern application of Sophistry.

Letters

Computations & Cogitations • Descartes at the Movies • On the Existence of Pot Roast • Beertification • Problems with Evil • Spread a Little Happiness • Do Stop Believing • Throw Me a Line • The Last Post • Time Left Unresolved

Will the Real John Locke Please Step Forward?

Hilarius Bogbinder shows how Locke’s intellectual identity changed over time.