The following answers to this key philosophical question each win a random book. It is clear that morality is a feature of humanity. However, if morality were objective then every member of our ...

Mark Cain on the 50th anniversary of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s death. April 29th was the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein is one the few genuinely ...

While there remains no consensus on what dignity is, by far the most important and famous conception of it remains the classical liberal account developed by Immanuel Kant. The fame is well deserved, ...

Donald Davidson’s theories about mind and language have been incredibly influential in shaping modern analytic philosophy. Giancarlo Marchetti recently asked him about his life and his ideas. I’d like ...

Philosophy Now interviews Jostein Gaarder, author of the best-selling history of philosophy, Sophie’s World. The surprise bestseller of the last year not only in Britain but in Germany and Scandinavia ...

Peter Adamson spots some similarities between ancient Greek and ancient Indian philosophies. When you launch a podcast and book series promising to cover the history of philosophy ‘without any gaps’ ...

Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich, and a Philosophy Now columnist too. Amirali Maleki talks with him about Islamic philosophy. Was your main goal in ...

Peter Graarup Westergaard explains why love is never just physical, with the aid of Donald Davidson’s anomalous monism. Most people have felt the gap between the consciousness of love and the physical ...

Nigel Hems asks, does Mary see colours differently outside her room? The ‘Mary’s Room’ thought experiment devised by Frank Jackson goes something like this. Mary is raised from birth in a black and ...

Rogério Severo looks at the brain to see the world anew. It seems there was a time when metaphysicians were all of a single species. Now they appear to make up at least two. Of the newer kind is the ...

Roger Haines contemplates how we consciously manage our minds. A Martian, I’m told, recently visited a terrestrial garment factory. He was surprised to see that the boss never touched a sewing machine ...

Peter Adamson ponders the ancient ethics of happiness. These days, when students are first exposed to philosophical ethics, they are typically presented with three rival approaches. First, ...