Philosophy goes where hard science can’t, or won’t. Philosophers have a license to speculate about everything from metaphysics to morality, and this means they can shed light on some of the basic ...

Philosophy is a uniquely reflexive activity. It tends to swallow any question about itself and make it into just more philosophy. Other disciplines are different. The history of physics is not physics ...

“Right now there are few or no regulations, guidelines, or ethical agreements that have addressed many of the real issues that are facing the world,” a Masthead member wrote on our forums last week.

When you’re struggling with issues of meaning and purpose, identity and change, core beliefs and values, or freedom and ...

The blurred lines between humanity and machinery raises questions in “Ex Machina.” It is not an easy feat, grappling with the philosophical issues that lie at the heart of human thought: what ...

(TNS) — Matthew Katz knows you might be worried about “The Terminator.” The Central Michigan University philosophy professor, though, also wants you to consider whether an android — a Terminator or ...

As the American Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once quipped, "nothing is more absurd than the answer to a question that is not asked." It has become common practice for Catholic secondary ...

During most of my early adulthood, philosophy had little appeal to me. I lasted no more than three weeks in a Philosophy 101 class in college, perplexed and bored by the way that far-fetched ...