A whale lover explains why he cannot join Greenpeace.
Some top environmentalists say the way to a greener planet is to have fewer people. Is an environmentalism without humanity the answer?
Has neuroscience really proved that morality is just a matter of feelings?
How DNA investigations led a philosopher to affirm a ‘creative intelligence’ at the origin of life.
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.
Brilliant modern scholars have breathed new life into an ancient approach to morality.
University students face four competing world views as they navigate their way through modern culture. They can only choose one of them.
Why so many people find it difficult to see humanity in a developing foetus.
A claim that gay marriage requires only modest changes to family laws has a Swiftian air, minus the satire.
What does the Hollywood crowd see in Scientology? Whatever it is, Aussie billionaire James Packer is no longer putting his money on it.
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.
Belief in free will is diminishing and cheating is on the increase. A study shows the two are connected.
When a group of students and professors refused to hear the pope speak at their Roman university they were denying their own tradition.
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?
Chimps can paint, use tools and show affection. So what makes them different from us?
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