Does a Just Society Require Just Citizens?

Jimmy Alfonso Licon on moral mediocrity.

Seeing Through Transparency

Paul Doolan clearly sees transparency through philosophy.

Where Do Philosophers Get Their Ideas?

Martin Cohen says they get them the same sort of places as everyone else.

What Happened to Philosophy?

Alexander Jeuk says overspecialization, academic debate focusing, and simplistic argument structures, are prominent missteps in modern philosophy.

Why Write Philosophy?

George Sher writes some philosophy to tell us.

Is Progress Possible In Philosophy?

Mathis Bitton suggests three ways that philosophy progresses.

What is the Philosophical Experience?

Eldar Sarajlic philosophically considers what it is to do philosophy.

Being as Onion: A Heideggerian Parable

Mark C. Watney watches Martin Heidegger's kitchen encounter.

The Sopranos

Jarett Figlin discusses depravity & the American dream.

Stoicism in History & Modern Life

Dermot M. Griffin reflects on the sources and relevance of this ancient wisdom.

Overwhelming Evil

Christopher Devlin Brown argues that our wholesale destruction of animals makes veganism humanity’s primary moral imperative.

Augustine (354-430)

Hilarius Bogbinder on the philosophical life of a key figure of the Catholic Church.

Technology & Transformation

Helena Moradi looks at changing philosophical attitudes to technology.

Nostalgia, Morality, & Mass Entertainment

Adam Kaiser finds a fine case of mass existential longing.

The Best Criticism of Ethical Egoism

Stephen Leach gives you an unbiased reason why you shouldn’t be selfish.

Metaphysical Skepticism

Jacob Bell argues that we can’t determine the ultimate nature of reality.

Kant on Time

Letizia Nonnis unfolds Kant’'s conception of the nature of and experience of time.

Solving the Mystery of Mathematics

Jared Warren says, think of a number. What exactly are you thinking of?

John Locke & Personal Identity

Nurana Rajabova considers why, according to John Locke, you continue to be you.

Austin & 'Reality'

Will Bynoe on milk, therapy, and the nature of being.

The Association of Philosophy Teachers Conference Report

Paul Moore-Bridger reports from an exciting new frontier for philosophy.

Uncertainty Made Measurable

Rob Selzer sizes up a human confidence interval.

Should We Take Vagueness Seriously?

Apostolos Syropoulos argues that vagueness is a virtue, sometimes.

The Six Core Virtues

Massimo Pigliucci finds six ethical ideals shared by all cultures.

On Being One With Nature

Niki Young tells us how we (humans) can look at our relationship with Nature in a way that neither alienates us from it nor indistinguishably absorbs us into it.

Will the Real John Locke Please Step Forward?

Hilarius Bogbinder shows how Locke's intellectual identity changed over time.

Back to the Sophists

Nana Ariel corrects the record and the modern application of Sophistry.

Can You Be Both A Moral Rationalist & A Moral Sentimentalist?

Andrew Kemle says that evolutionary forces give us the answer.

Ethical Truth in Light of Quantum Mechanics

Myles King contends that physics helps us understand ethics.

Right & Wrong About Right & Wrong

Paul Stearns argues against moral relativism and moral presentism.