Animal choices

Richard Umbers | 24 April 2009 | comment 29

A whale lover explains why he cannot join Greenpeace.

Wish you weren’t here

Brian Lilley | 18 April 2009 | comment 18

Some top environmentalists say the way to a greener planet is to have fewer people. Is an environmentalism without humanity the answer?

Have we arrived at the end of philosophy?

Richard Umbers | 14 April 2009 | comment 2

Has neuroscience really proved that morality is just a matter of feelings?

One Flew out of the atheists’ nest

William West | 01 April 2009 | comment 56

How DNA investigations led a philosopher to affirm a ‘creative intelligence’ at the origin of life.

Universal truth in an age of reason

Derek Miedema | 13 November 2008 | comment 2

Does it really all depend? Is one set of beliefs as equally valid as any other? A review of William Gairdner's defence of universal truth.

A united front on natural law

Martin Fitzgerald | 19 September 2008 | comment 2

Brilliant modern scholars have breathed new life into an ancient approach to morality. 

Inevitable choices

Richard Bastien | 10 September 2008 | comment 24

University students face four competing world views as they navigate their way through modern culture. They can only choose one of them.

Does making babies make sense?

Richard Stith | 02 September 2008 | comment 37

Why so many people find it difficult to see humanity in a developing foetus.

Reasons without virtue

Robert R. Reilly | 29 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 | 23 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 | 11 April 2008 | comment 10

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 | 31 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 | 19 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 | 13 July 2007 | comment 14

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

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