Overview What’s New in… Aesthetics Kai Hammermeister on the beauty business.. Aesthetics is the philosophical investigation of art and the theory of beauty and opposite phenomena, like the ugly, the ...

Articles Science, Ockham’s Razor & God David Glass and Mark McCartney say Ockham’s razor doesn’t cut it with God.. The idea that science has explained God away is very popular. The suggestion is that ...

Articles Hegel on History Lawrence Evans rationally interprets Hegel’s rational interpretation of history.. We are often taught that history is nothing but the record of past events. Yet Georg Wilhelm ...

Forms of Pacifism. Pacifism emerges as people take these moral restraints on war ever more seriously. Varieties of pacifism differ by degree. It is helpful to understand the various forms of pacifism ...

Philosophy of Religion Religion and Truth Richard Taylor on the proper role of myths and mysteries.. The best way into our subject is through a look at ancient mythology. Consider, for example, the ...

Television Breaking Bad Psychologist Joe MacDonagh and philosopher Sheridan Hough each watch what happens when society breaks.. The television series Breaking Bad has been critically and popularly ...

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 An Essay on Nothing Sophia Gottfried meditates on the emptiness of non-existence.. In philosophy there is a lot of emphasis on what exists. We call this ontology, which means, the study of ...

Articles Knowledge & Language Mary Gregg considers how our language influences us to think about knowledge.. I want to draw your attention to the way language shapes our interaction with knowledge.

Richard Rorty is perhaps the best-known living philosopher in the Pragmatic tradition, and one of the most talked-about thinkers of the present day. He is a philosophy professor at Stanford University ...

The Art Issue Art As An Encounter Daniel Vargas Gómez considers what we encounter when we encounter art.. When Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) wrote Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Über ...

Articles The Last Messiah The first English version of a classic essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, originally published in Janus #9, 1933.Translated from the Norwegian by Gisle R. Tangenes.. One night in ...