Thinking
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Three responses to grief in the philosophy of Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Camus
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Keeping offended people safe from “harmful” speech threatens intellectual liberalism
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Is nothing sacred? How Durkheim defines the things that matter
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How is fascism distinct from other extreme ideologies? These 10 traits offer clues.
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How privacy became a forgotten virtue
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The happiness problem: why Kant thought you’d never be happy
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Hasty generalization: how to escape your biases and be more rational
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The power to choose: How Stoicism approaches toxic relationships
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How Nietzsche can improve your love life
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Extreme asceticism: the Jains who starve themselves to death
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Why philosopher Henri Bergson rejected the word “time”
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Which philosopher had the strongest arguments?
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Spinoza on how to stop living a substandard life
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Who was the most controversial philosopher?
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You don’t see objective reality objectively: neuroscience catches up to philosophy
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Who was the most influential philosopher ever?
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Enough moral relativism: some cultures are worse than others
Do right and wrong depend on culture, or does morality transcend place and time?
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The secret philosophy of bonsai trees
To be successful at bonsai cultivation, you must acquire the perseverance and unconditional kindness normally reserved for devout monks.
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Are we born evil? St. Augustine and “original sin”
Augustine's theology came to define Christianity, but there was a rival theology.
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Your beliefs are much harder to justify than you think
Coherentism accepts that circular reasoning is probably the best any of us can do.
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Inside Mary’s Room: is a physical world all there is?
A strange philosophical thought experiment forces us to ask if the world can be completely described in physical terms.
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Gray zone: when is it best not to save a life?
Medical science can save lives, but should it do so at the cost of quality of life?
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Should the Pythagorean theorem be renamed the Thalean theorem?
Thales may have known the famous theorem perhaps as much as half a century before Pythagoras.
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If you knew the future, would you still choose your life?
If you had perfect foreknowledge of the blessings and tragedies that will come in your life, would you make the same choices anyway?
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The problem of other minds: a disturbing world of polite, smiling zombies
What if you are the only person in the world who can think?
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The power of utopian thinking: it’s not just for naïve dreamers
Utopia is like a John Lennon song but with golden toilets.
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The other moral in Frankenstein and how to apply it to human brains and reanimated pigs
Some neurology experiments — such as growing miniature human brains and reanimating the brains of dead pigs — are getting weird. It's time to discuss ethics.
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Epiphenomenalism: one of the most disturbing ideas in philosophy
Do our thoughts have any meaning whatsoever?
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Hack your brain for better problem solving
Tips from neuroscience and psychology can make you an expert thinker.
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Pragmatism: How Americans define truth
If something is "true," it needs to be shown to work in the real world.