Medieval Philosophy An Introduction to Medieval Philosophy Mark Daniels introduces a whole millenium of ideas. Let us start by considering three points. First, medieval philosophy came from a period ...

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 The Philosophy of Organism Peter Sjöstedt-H introduces Whitehead’s organic awareness of reality. The philosophy of organism is the name of the metaphysics of the mathematician and philosopher ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brief Lives Etienne de la Boétie (1530-1563) Martin Jenkins looks at the life of an influential early political philosopher. Etienne de la Boétie is probably best known in the English-speaking world ...

Articles Descartes versus Cudworth On The Moral Worth of Animals Samuel Kaldas compares two views on the nature of animals and their implications for our moral responsibility towards them. “No one ...

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 ...

Articles Bertrand Russell Stalks The Nazis Thomas Akehurst on why Russell blamed German fascism on German philosophy. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) is best known for his activities at the very ...

Science & Morality Einstein’s Morality Ching-Hung Woo looks at the many facets of Albert Einstein’s approach to ethics. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) regarded morality as indispensable to the survival ...

Articles In Defense of Alain Badiou Robert Michael Ruehl describes new political possibilities. In Issue 107, Philosophy Now published James Alexander’s ‘ A Refutation of Snails by Roast Beef ’, an ...

Articles Nietzsche and the Problem of Suffering Van Harvey on the metaphysical aspects of an anti-metaphysical philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche shared at least one fundamental concern with the ...