With it being Thanksgiving in the states, I found myself contemplating the nature of giving thanks and expressing gratitude in general. It turns out that there’s a rich literature on…
Given that it’s Halloween, I thought for this month’s post I’d get a bit festive by talking about 13 spooky concepts in philosophy, and I could think of nothing spookier…
While consequentialism and deontological ethics play a major role in shaping the debate around normative ethics, there is a third much older perspective regarding ethics that is enjoying contemporary resurgence….
In the last post we covered metaethics, and in this post we’re going to cover normative ethics. Metaethics largely centered around the nature and meaning of ethics and moral content,…
In this second post on ethics, we’ll be going into greater detail regarding topics in metaethics. What exactly is metaethics? To outsiders and newcomers to philosophy, metaethics is likely large,…
This April marked the 48th anniversary of the first Earth Day, and a lot has changed since then. Our understanding of our role in shaping ecosystems and climate systems has…
This month I’ve decided to try something new. Rather than do a round-up of stories from various philosophy related publications, I’ve decided to develop a new segment covering a broad…
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites,…
Readers of this blog will likely recall that in an earlier epistemology post one of the given definitions of knowledge defined it as “justified true belief.” Well, that definition is…
Philosophy in the News is a segment which covers articles with both direct and indirect relevance to philosophy. In this month’s post we’ll be covering stories from March of 2018. You…