The fact that one was deceived by adults about the existence of Santa, yet eventually discovered the deception, is good evidence that one is developing the ability to find and discard false beliefs.

The Art of Living Seneca On Anger Massimo Pigliucci tells us how to avoid becoming irate. Got an anger problem? If you decide to read just one book on the topic, it should be On A ...

Andrew Brower Latz traces two core problems for the modern mind. In Sam Lipsyte’s satirical novel The Ask, set in contemporary New York, the protagonist says, “We were stuck between meanings. Or we ...

Christopher Perricone says that the short answer is “Yes” and the long answer is this article. Many books about art and the philosophy of art include discussions of artistic materials. By artistic ...

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Willow Verkerk considers what Nietzsche has to teach us about love. What could Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) have to teach us about love? More than we might suppose. Speculations about his sexuality ...

Philip Goff discusses a thought-experiment about consciousness. For the last five hundred years or so physics has been doing extraordinarily well. More and more of our world has been captured in its ...

Andrew Royle introduces Heidegger’s key ideas from his classic Being and Time, showing how they lead towards his concept of Being-towards-death. “If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face ...

Joe Fearn asks whether the idea of out of body experiences is intelligible. I talked to Jean Gittins, a 57 year old Leeds woman who told me about the out of body experience she had during an extended ...

Our philosophical science correspondent Massimo Pigliucci reports. Unfortunate it may be, but despite the spectacular successes of modern science, there is no ultimate foundation for our knowledge of ...

John Locke (1632-1704) and George Berkeley (1685-1753) never actually met, although both believed that all our knowledge originally comes from our senses. However, they had very different views about ...

Hegel’s philosophy of history is most lucidly set out in his Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, given at the University of Berlin in 1822, 1828 and 1830. In his introduction to those ...