Metaphysics has never had a “fun” reputation. Many people—if they’ve even heard of the M-word— tend to associate it with woozy, abstract lectures about time and space that spiral into confusion and ...

Philosophy may have originated with the fascinating dialogues that Socrates provocatively conducted in the Athenian agora, but can it interest a public in the American marketplace of the 21st century?

Ilario Colli is an Italian-Australian philosopher and author based in New York City, and he has embarked on an audacious intellectual mission. Colli—a former classical music journalist turned ...

Anthropos is the international journal of anthropology and linguistics, founded in 1906 by Wilhelm Schmidt. The title of the journal stands for the Greek word for “human being” and expresses its main ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Postmodernism in philosophy holds that traditional philosophy has come (or should come) to an end, and that it must be succeeded by something ...

Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., is an American Jesuit philosopher who teaches at Fordham University in New York and serves as editor-in-chief of International Philosophical Quarterly. He recently finished ...

PROF. LADD'S latest book opens with two excellent chapters on the connection between psychology and, the philosophy of mind, which lead one to hope great things of the rest of the work. It is ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – If life is a closed system, with no afterlife offering the possibility of either misery or bliss, then death should be the ultimate protection from harm. But David Boonin a professor ...

Philosophy often flourishes in the aftermath of wars, especially lost wars. Socrates served in the losing Athenian army in the Peloponnesian War; Thomas Hobbes wrote “Leviathan” while in exile in ...

Navigate some of the deepest questions human beings have asked — questions about the basic character of reality, the limits of knowledge, the place of mind in nature, the best life for a person and ...