Question of the Month Is Morality Objective? The following answers to this key philosophical question each win a random book. It is clear that morality is a feature of humanity. However, if morality ...

Fiction The Death of Pythagoras Bruce Pennington tells us how Pythagoras became a has-bean, while another Bruce Pennington drew the portraits… Shamanistic shyster or intellectual innovator, creative ...

Articles Socratic Humility Glenn Rawson on humility versus arrogance in the Socratic method of philosophy. “Gentlemen of Athens, I am far from making a defence now on my own behalf, as you might think ...

Films The Truman Show Have you ever wondered whether everyone talks about you behind your back? Whether they are all keeping something from you? John McGuire discusses the Cartesian nightmare that is ...

Quality Metaphysics Pirsig postulates that everything that exists can be assumed to be a value (though he divides values into two classes, as we’ll see later). As his system differs from traditional ...

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 ...

Ways of Knowing Analytic versus Continental Philosophy Kile Jones explains the differences between these ways of thinking. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as ...

Question of the Month What Is The Future Of Humanity? The following philosophical forecasts of our fate each win an unforeseeable book. From the onset of the Industrial Revolution, human progress has ...

I asked an AI the question. It listed natural disasters, but also named itself as a possible cause of our demise. However, it also said that humanity could prevent it. I suggest the AI has identified ...

Question of the Month How Do We Understand Each Other? Each answer below receives a book. Apologies to the entrants not included. Can you conceive of something of which you’ve had no prior experience?

The plot begins with the curious presence of an unloved hat. “The matter is a perfectly trivial one,” Holmes challenges Watson, “Here is my lens. You know my methods.” “I can see nothing,” Watson’s ...

Frankenstein & Philosophy Moral Blind Spots Gerald Jones discusses how we judge the past, how we will one day be judged, and what we can do about it. We do not know how the future will judge us – but ...