A few weeks ago I bought two chrysanthemums for my windowsill. After giving them the dose of water they clearly missed in the ...

She browsed further up the aisle, and stopped to consider the plastic deer: cutouts, less than an inch thick but nearly life-size in height and length. The bucks held their antlered heads high. The ...

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

Rather than dwelling on falsehoods and misinformation, I want to emphasize why truth and trust are so vital in politics.

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

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 ...

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

Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 was published over seventy years ago, in 1953, and yet continues to be a source of ...

Articles Wordsworth & Darwin Christine Avery wonders whether poetry can help us to deal with science. In his poetic autobiography The Prelude (1799), William Wordsworth describes ...

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The belief that life exists outside of Earth is known as ‘cosmic pluralism’. Intriguingly, this was briefly a topic of discussion during the medieval period, in the works of none other than St Thomas ...

The place of women in Islam has always been controversial, especially as Islamic thinkers were always trying to describe the role of women using religious teachings.