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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the advances made by the Scientific Revolution were applied to machinery, the Industrial Revolution was born. The ...

A few weeks ago I bought two chrysanthemums for my windowsill. After giving them the dose of water they clearly missed in the shop, I started musing on how closely plant care and philosophy are ...

Here’s the main problem in a nutshell: The technologist is not an ethicist, and the ethicist is not a technologist.

Films Falling Down Thomas R. Morgan considers how personal identity is maintained, and how it is lost. Falling Down (1993) is ...

Paul Doolan tries to tell them apart. Movie director Ridley Scott is known for creating an authentic cinematic world within each of his films. The battle scenes in his newest blockbuster, Napoleon, ...

Audren Layeux follows the doomed quest for state emancipation of the self. The contemporary world has given birth to a growing feeling of helplessness. Globalisation, once portrayed as promising a ...

Following a 1976 paper of the same name by Bernard Williams, in his 1979 paper ‘Moral Luck’, Thomas Nagel argued that even our moral score-card is partly a function of luck. For instance, it is easier ...