The philosophers have been taking their own temperatures. Less metaphorically, a couple of well-known professional philosophers at the Australian National University in Canberra conducted a survey of ...

Is your green my green? Probably not. What appears as pure green to me will likely look a bit yellowish or blueish to you. This is because visual systems vary from person to person. Moreover, an ...

Socrates said the un-examined life is not worth living — this is where you can start digging in. A group of Brooklyn philosophers bent on bringing philosophical discussions out of academia and putting ...

Ah philosophers, you gotta love ‘em. Even if they have given up the pretension of being wiser than everyone else, they still purport to be smarter, or at least more analytically adept. And yet they ...

Monasteries, manuscripts and slow thought shaped centuries of ideas about God, reason and human duty. Medieval philosophy ...

The desire to portray great thinkers as disembodied argument machines remains a powerful force in analytic philosophy. Think of it as a slice of amour-propre, part of the arrogant wish to be seen as ...

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It seems safe to say that we all act as though time is real. Time is central to our way of organising our day, our week, and indeed our lives. But we mostly don’t give much thought to what time is ...

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Artists now fulfil the role once taken by philosophers and priests. Exploring the values and meaning of our culture in schools is now left to the art department. Art is now the main area that develops ...