Each answer below receives a random book. Apologies to the entrants not included. A computer is essentially an information processing device. The human brain can also be seen as an information ...

Philip Goff grasps hold of the problem of evil and comes up with a novel solution. Human beings often get stuck in binary thought. Do you believe in souls, or do you think the mind is just the brain?

‘More songs about Buildings and Food’ was the title of a 1978 album by the rock band Talking Heads. It was about all the things rock stars normally don’t sing about. Pop songs are usually about ...

Amrit Pathak gives us a run-down of the foundations of modern atheism. Atheism, defined as belief in the absence of any God or gods, has long been a topic of philosophical inquiry. In recent years, ...

Two others believed in a world beyond, But their morality could not correspond. Nietzsche’s Nutkin twirled an acorn spear, It proclaimed ‘God had disappeared’. Eager to defend the scientific critique.

Massimo Pigliucci tells us how to avoid becoming irate. Got an anger problem? If you decide to read just one book on the topic, it should be On Anger (De Ira, c.45 CE) by the Stoic philosopher Lucius ...

Raymond Tallis kicks immaterialism into touch. Readers may be familiar with Bishop George Berkeley’s (in)famous claim that objects exist only insofar as they are perceived. From this it follows that ...

Larry Chan takes us back to the dawn of thought. Stick was curled on a rock jutting out of the ice sheet. Her long red hair was tangled around her small flinted spear. Her bow rested at her side, ...

Musa Mumtaz meditates on two maverick medieval Muslim metaphysicians. Islam’s scriptural foundation, the Quran, unequivocally asserts as its core metaphysical tenet tawhid – the uncompromising and ...

Seán Radcliffe asks, has Plato’s Allegory of the Cave been warning us of social media for 2,400 years? The ‘Allegory of the Cave’ is a Socratic argument recorded by the Greek philosopher Plato, a ...

Mohsen Moghri gives a Godless but principled response to the problem of evil. We are all familiar with the problem of evil for traditional theism: a perfectly benevolent God would evidently desire the ...

A comic by Corey Mohler about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Side note: The philosophers in this episode are Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and John Stuart Mill ...