If God is such a nice guy, why is there so much misery and suffering in the world? Kola Abimbola examines an ancient problem. One of the principal challenges to the ...

Sally Latham examines the construction of identity through memory. I’ve kept a diary in one form or another since about the age of twelve. Sometimes a few words, sometimes pages and pages, but either ...

Phil Badger tries to make sense of a tangle of pride, identity and metaphysics. “If you believe yourself a citizen of the world then you are a citizen of nowhere.” UK Prime Minister Theresa May, ...

Michael Ruse is a well known philosopher of biology. He has written extensively on the relationship between science and religion. His latest book is A Meaning to Life (OUP). Seth Hart asked him about ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Poet, playwright, scientist. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Philosopher. Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner: Chemist. It is 1829, and we are in the Faculty Club of the University ...

Matt Qvortrup explains how the Enlightenment’s leading philosopher went looking for a bit of peace. The newspaper Gothaische gelehrte Zeitungen was slightly sarcastic when it wrote about Immanuel Kant ...

Patricia Herron looks at life and death philosophically. In the past I have given this brief description of who I am: “Patricia Herron is a philosophy and religious studies professor, writer, poet, ...

Van Harvey says it is possible to live meaningfully without a higher purpose. “Or again we could say that the man is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except ...

Vincent Di Norcia theorizes how morality is generated by how the brain works. “The time has come for ethics to be removed temporarily from the hands of the philosophers and biologicized.” Damasio does ...

Biology and neuropsychology tell us the brain is a highly complex physical object, which in some ways resembles a computer in its operating principles. There are ‘circuits’ of neurons (brain cells) ...

Ray Liikanen overhears a modern-day Socratic dialogue. Setting: A park, where Socrates spots a man leafing through one of the three books he has on him. Socrates notes the titles, and since he’s ...

Fred Leavitt argues that our most cherished beliefs are probably wrong. Imagine that you’ve developed a new lie detector test and recruit a thousand people to try to beat it. You give them a series of ...