Peter Saltzstein finds that Chaos Theory yields unexpected philosophical results. The future is not what it used to be. I mean, an intriguing implication of the branch of mathematics called chaos ...

When the advances made by the Scientific Revolution were applied to machinery, the Industrial Revolution was born. The ...

Alejandra Mancilla uses an example from Robert Nozick to question the claims to ownership made by breeders of genetically modified organisms. John Locke’s justification of property rights started with ...

We live in the era of the global free market. Or do we? And now that the Cold War is over, why are the arms manufacturers still looking so prosperous? Political theorist Noam Chomsky thinks he knows ...

The belief that life exists outside of Earth is known as ‘cosmic pluralism’. Intriguingly, this was briefly a topic of ...

Articles Wordsworth & Darwin Christine Avery wonders whether poetry can help us to deal with science. In his poetic ...

Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 was published over seventy years ago, in 1953, and yet continues to be a source of ...

Films Falling Down Thomas R. Morgan considers how personal identity is maintained, and how it is lost. Falling Down (1993) is ...

Shawn Thompson follows legal efforts in the U.S. and Argentina to win rights for apes, exploring arguments about morality and autonomy along the way. Don’t worry. It may not be the beginning of the ...

Peter Abbs recounts how Rousseau undertook a psychological self-examination a century before psychoanalysis. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the great 18th century philosopher, was preoccupied throughout his ...

Michael Philips on the shaky foundations of the most popular philosophical theory of modern times. Most academic philosophers these days will tell you, without hesitation, that they are materialists.

Political Philosophy Philosophers & Immigration Control Edward Hall argues that philosophers of immigration are not thinking it through. Much mainstream philosophical work on migr ...