René Descartes sharpened the distinction into two substances: res cogitans (a thinking part that exists outside the body) and res extensa (the body).

The environmental crises confronting the world today—climate change, mass extinction, deforestation, and the poisoning of air ...

Jesus Christ calls us to a life of holistic spirituality, which is characterised by a philosophy of integration of every ...

By Ben BRAKOFor centuries, African spiritual philosophy was corralled at the margins of global thought—reduced by colonial narratives to folklore, or dismissed by rationalist currents as ...

The Metropolitan Museum’s Allegory and Abstraction offers a compelling rotation from the Department of Drawings and Prints, bringing forward how artists across centuries embed narrative, emotion, and ...

Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976) was a British philosopher of mind and language best known for his book The Concept of Mind. He developed a novel argument against Cartesian dualism, which he called “the ...

It was necessary to begin thinking that there was no centre, that the centre could not be thought in the form of a present-being, that centre had no natural site, that it was not a fixed locus but a ...

Teaching Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning, according to our new study ...

ABSTRACT: The mind-body problem is far to be an old issue because it keeps rising new understanding and perception without ceasing. In the contemporary philosophy of mind, the essence of the question ...

In recent literature on the metaphysics of consciousness, and in particular on the prospects of physicalism, there are two interesting strands of discussion. One strand concerns the so-called ‘thesis ...