Massimo Pigliucci takes the philosophy pill. Is there a cure for life? This question may seem rather bizarre, as we don’t normally think of life as a disease. And yet, a moment’s reflection reminds us ...

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 ...

Dr. Gindi, sculptor, has a philosophical conversation with Richard Baron about sensation, life, infinity and, you guessed it, sculpture. Dr. Gindi is one of Switzerland’s foremost sculptors, whose ...

Caroline Deforche sees similarities between gardening and philosophising. A few weeks ago I bought two chrysanthemums for my windowsill. After giving them the dose of water they clearly missed in the ...

Babatunde Onabajo tells us why Aquinas did not believe in aliens. The belief that life exists outside of Earth is known as ‘cosmic pluralism’. Intriguingly, this was briefly a topic of discussion ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas R. Morgan considers how personal identity is maintained, and how it is lost. Falling Down (1993) is a gem of a film, and is excellent on many levels. Written by Ebbe Rowe Smith, and directed 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 ...

Radical theologian Don Cupitt became known to many as the presenter of the 1984 BBC television series Sea of Faith, which sparked a movement of the same name. After studying natural sciences, theology ...