ideas - philosophy

Reasons without virtue

Robert Reilly | 28 June 2008 | comment 12

A claim that gay marriage requires only modest changes to family laws has a Swiftian air, minus the satire.

Strictly for the star-struck

Richard Umbers | 22 May 2008 | comment 5

What does the Hollywood crowd see in Scientology? Whatever it is, Aussie billionaire James Packer is no longer putting his money on it.

The ultimate conversation stopper: does life have meaning?

Michael Casey | 10 April 2008 | comment 9

If so many people today feel that life is a sound and fury signifying nothing, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud and Richard Rorty are partly to blame.

Free to choose?

Kathleen Vohs | 15 February 2008 | comment 14

Belief in free will is diminishing and cheating is on the increase. A study shows the two are connected.

Where did universities come from?

Richard Bastien | 30 January 2008 | comment 24

When a group of students and professors refused to hear the pope speak at their Roman university they were denying their own tradition.

Do science and rationality support atheism?

Edward Remler | 18 August 2007 | comment 78

No, says a nuclear physicist. To understand why, you must be prepared to face the Fundamental Question of Philosophy: Why is there anything rather than nothing?

Monkey business

Marie I. George | 12 July 2007 | comment 14

Chimps can paint, use tools and show affection. So what makes them different from us?

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