Articles What Simone de Beauvoir Got – And Didn’t Get – About Motherhood Nura Hossainzadeh argues that motherhood is both physical and transcendent.. It is often said that becoming a parent is a ...

Articles Bertrand Russell Stalks The Nazis Thomas Akehurst on why Russell blamed German fascism on German philosophy.. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) is best known for his activities at the very ...

Metaphysics Why Buridan’s Ass Doesn’t Starve Does free will exist? Michael Hauskeller reasons about reasons.. Imagine you go to a restaurant. Looking at the menu, you discover that they serve your two ...

Fiction The Death of Pythagoras Bruce Pennington tells us how Pythagoras became a has-bean, while another Bruce Pennington drew the portraits…. Shamanistic shyster or intellectual innovator, creative ...

Definition 1. A reality consists of the interactions of a particular thing with what ‘becomes’ for that thing.. Definition 2. Reality (with a capital R) consists of all realities.. Definition 3. The ...

Articles What’s Wrong With The Enlightenment? Not as much as some people think, says Phil Badger.. What is being referred to when we speak of ‘The Enlightenment’ is not always easy to pin down, but in ...

Nietzsche Reloaded Nietzsche’s Übermensch: A Hero of Our Time? Eva Cybulska dispells popular misconceptions about this controversial figure. “Man is a rope, fastened between animal and Übermensch – a ...

Existentialism & Culture Reimagining Sisyphus Philip Villamor rethinks Albert Camus’ famous rock’n’roll parable.. The gods condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly roll a rock to the top of a mountain. It is ...

Nothing new here, except that the claims are somewhat less lurid than those of the recent past. For instance, anthropologist Raymond Dart, who discovered the first australopithecine fossil in 1924, ...

Articles Beauty & Science Marilyn Kane wonders what scientists mean when they say nature is beautiful.. The advancement of scientific knowledge doesn’t result from any single research method, but is ...

Have you ever wondered whether everyone talks about you behind your back? Whether they are all keeping something from you? John McGuire discusses the Cartesian nightmare that is The Truman Show. Every ...

Articles Kant On Suicide Paul Edwards disagrees with Kant in this recently-discovered paper.. All Enlightenment thinkers who wrote on the subject – Hume, Voltaire and Rousseau among others – agreed ...