David Rönnegard laments having to leave the party early.

Becky Lee Meadows considers questions of guilt, innocence, and despair in this classic Christmas movie. Frank Capra’s 1946 masterpiece It’s A Wonderful Life is regularly included in lists of the ...

Amrit Pathak gives us a run-down of the foundations of modern atheism. Atheism, defined as belief in the absence of any God or gods, has long been a topic of philosophical inquiry. In recent years, ...

Joakim Vindenes says VR could be a useful addition to the philosopher’s toolkit. Virtual Reality is in some ways a simple concept: it can be reduced to an act of representation, symbolism, or language ...

Mohsen Moghri gives a Godless but principled response to the problem of evil. We are all familiar with the problem of evil for traditional theism: a perfectly benevolent God would evidently desire the ...

Andrew Likoudis questions the basis of some popular atheist arguments. Proving or disproving the existence of God is predominantly a matter for reason, rather than ...

Ignacio Gonzalez-Martinez has a flash of inspiration about the role metaphors play in creative thought. The equivalence between Richard Feynman’s and Julian Schwinger’s distinct formulations of ...

Shashwat Mishra explores the limits of perception via the Molyneux problem. The Molyneux problem is a philosophical thought experiment that has been the subject of debate for centuries. It poses this ...

Musa Mumtaz meditates on two maverick medieval Muslim metaphysicians. Islam’s scriptural foundation, the Quran, unequivocally asserts as its core metaphysical tenet tawhid – the uncompromising and ...

There are a couple of solid reasons to doubt that parents are justified in lying to their children. The first is one many philosophy students learn about when they study what’s known as the ethics of ...

Zdeněk Petráček looks at the biggest problem facing monotheism. The problem of evil is one of the most profound philosophical challenges to the belief in an omnipotent God. How can the existence of ...

Philip Goff grasps hold of the problem of evil and comes up with a novel solution. Human beings often get stuck in binary thought. Do you believe in souls, or do you think the mind is just the brain?