Everyone knows that. But treating those limits as moral collapse is an evasion, allowing critics to keep the moral ...

The French philosopher takes phenomena such as mass consumption, aesthetics, leisure and the kitsch to examine our world and ...

Jean-Paul Sartres quietly radical quote challenges the idea of identity as something finished and fixed. This feature explores how Sartre reframed the self as a work in progress, defined not by past ...

Immanuel Kant, widely regarded as one of the most important thinkers in philosophical history, believed that happiness is not ...

To have moral worth, our actions must be motivated by duty, rather than mere sympathy or inclination. As a paradigm of moral ...

Many who partake in extreme sports like paragliding or bungee jumping, ride rollercoasters, or watch horror movies are really ...

In this week’s, Dr. David Gordon takes a hard look at philosopher Omri Boehm’s fixation with John Brown and his commitment to ...

Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that, says Joseph de Weck, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute ...

abstract. Tort cases often hinge on whether the defendant behaved “unreasonably.” Tort theorists have long debated what makes behavior unreasonable, with many seeking answers in economic theory or ...

Por ocasião do tricentenário do nascimento de Immanuel Kant (1724-2024), este artigo examina a teoria Umwelt de Jakob von Uexküll como um exemplo único da influência do pensamento de Kant na biologia ...

History of philosophy is a concern of most staff in the Durham Department, and their interests range from Ancient Greek philosophy to the philosophy of the 20th century, taking in medieval philosophy, ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...