Themed Articles

The Ethics of a Pessimist

Dennis Vanden Auweele looks at Schopenhauer’s response to suffering.
[Issue 134: October/November 2019]

Philosophical Outlook & Mental Well-Being

Sam Woolfe asks if pessimism is a proper response to life or a symptom of depression.
[Issue 134: October/November 2019]

Philosophy of Science: The First 2½ Millennia

Will Bouwman asks what really matters when studying matter.
[Issue 133: August/September 2019]

Einstein vs Logical Positivism

Rossen Vassilev Jr. asks if modern physics has become too metaphysical.
[Issue 133: August/September 2019]

Science & Phenomenology

Kalina Moskaluk tells us how an idea outside of her theoretical background destroyed her research project and her faith in ‘simple’ phenomenology.
[Issue 133: August/September 2019]

DNA & The Identity Crisis

Raymond Keogh has a science-based take on personal identity.
[Issue 133: August/September 2019]

Flora or Mona Lisa?

Predrag Slijepcevic asks if organisms are better seen as singular or as composites.
[Issue 133: August/September 2019]

Meditating with Descartes

Karen Parham asks how close Western philosophy gets to Buddhism.
[Issue 132: June/July 2019]

Some Solid Ideas

Bharatwaj Iyer examines substance with the help of Hume & Vedantic philosophy.
[Issue 132: June/July 2019]

Truth and the True

Joseph Sen on types of knowledge in Western and Indian thought.
[Issue 132: June/July 2019]

...