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 Science, Ockham’s Razor & God David Glass and Mark McCartney say Ockham’s razor doesn’t cut it with God. The idea that science has explained God away is very popular. The suggestion is that ...

Articles Hegel on History Lawrence Evans rationally interprets Hegel’s rational interpretation of history. We are often taught that history is nothing but the record of past events. Yet Georg Wilhelm ...

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 ...

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 action of Breaking Bad is a meticulously crafted narrative arc, one that stretches over five years, 62 episodes, and roughly 46 and a half hours of viewing time. Of course, series creator Vince ...

David P. Barash says, not necessarily.War & Peace Are Human Beings Naturally Violent And Warlike? David P. Barash says, not necessarily. Ideas have consequences. Few people – and probably no ...

Articles An Essay on Nothing Sophia Gottfried meditates on the emptiness of non-existence. In philosophy there is a lot of emphasis on what exists. We call this ontology, which means, the study of ...

Knowledge & Interaction One’s role as either a possessor of or fellow conspirator with knowledge is determined by one’s mother tongue. For example, let us assume that Tim knows that two plus two is ...

Richard Rorty is perhaps the best-known living philosopher in the Pragmatic tradition, and one of the most talked-about thinkers of the present day. He is a philosophy professor at Stanford University ...

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 ...

Articles The Last Messiah The first English version of a classic essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, originally published in Janus #9, 1933. Translated from the Norwegian by Gisle R. Tangenes. One night in ...