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When Darwin first presented his theory of evolution for public consumption, it aroused a storm of controversy. Historians of science typically construe this as a battle between science and religion, ...

Do Natural Rights exist? Michael Birshan investigates one of the more persistent political assertions of the modern world in this prize-winning essay. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ...

Richard Floyd explains a notorious example of Wittgenstein’s public thought. Wittgenstein is certainly a special case. He is perhaps the only philosopher who could have produced an argument for which ...

The painter, poet, and engraver, William Blake (1757-1827) is not usually categorized as a philosopher, but I think otherwise ...

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“I have no idea what Aristotle would say.” Peter Singer is perhaps the world’s leading moral philosopher, but he is not ...

“Women are capable of education, but they are not made for activities which demand a universal faculty such as the more ...