Ancient and Medieval Philosophy: The Origin of Western Thought – Plato

Ancient and Medieval Philosophy: The Origin of Western Thought – Plato

September 8, 2017

Plato statue / Photo by lentina_x, Creative Commons By Dr. Garth Kemerling / 11.12.2011 Professor of Philosophy Capella University Philosophy...

Why Study Chinese Philosophy?

Why Study Chinese Philosophy?

September 7, 2017

Plato, Confucius and Aristotle. Ancient Greek philosophy is widely taught in American universities, but classes in Chinese...

Ancient and Medieval Philosophy: The Origin of Western Thought – Presocratics and Socrates

September 7, 2017

Presocratic Natural Philosophers from History of Science – Science in Ancient Egypt and the Aegean By Dr. Garth Kemerling /...

Imagination is a Powerful Tool: Why is Philosophy Afraid of It?

September 6, 2017

Two Men Contemplating the Moon by Caspar David Friedrich. 1825-30. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Amy Kind /...

The Revolutionary Figure of the Beautiful, Self-Improved Soul

September 4, 2017

Goethe by Georg Melchior Kraus. Courtesy Goethe Museum By Justine Kolata / 07.24.2017 PhD Candidate in Modern Languages...

Nature in John Locke’s ‘Essay Concerning Human Understanding’

September 4, 2017

Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1697 / State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia By Dr....

The Art of Philosophy: Visualizing Aristotle in Early 17th-Century Paris

August 31, 2017

Meurisse and Gaultier’s Artificiosa totius logices descriptio, 1614 / IBF Gallica With their elaborate interplay of image and...

Moral Agents in John Locke’s ‘Essay Concerning Human Understanding’

August 31, 2017

Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1697 / State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia By Dr....

Action in John Locke’s ‘Essay Concerning Human Understanding’

August 24, 2017

Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1697 / State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia By Dr....

Philosophical Discussion of Immortality Technology

January 31, 2022

Detail from The Fountain of Youth (1546) by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Courtesy Wikipedia By Francesca Minverva and Adrian...

God and Morality in John Locke’s ‘Essay Concerning Human Understanding’

August 23, 2017

Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1697 / State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia By Dr....

The Limits of Knowledge in John Locke’s ‘Essay Concerning Human Understanding’

September 13, 2023

Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1697 / State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia By Dr....

Exploring Knowledge in John Locke’s ‘Essay Concerning Human Understanding’

August 18, 2017

Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1697 / State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia By Dr....

The Use of Language in John Locke’s ‘Essay Concerning Human Understanding’

July 15, 2024

Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1697 / State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia By Dr....

Complex Ideas in John Locke’s ‘Essay Concerning Human Understanding’

August 16, 2017

Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1697 / State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia By Dr....

Simple Ideas in John Locke’s ‘Essay Concerning Human Understanding’

August 15, 2017

Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1697 / State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia By Dr....

An Introduction to John Locke’s ‘Essay Concerning Human Understanding’

April 17, 2023

Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1697 / State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia By Dr....

Is a Copy of Me Still Me?

Is a Copy of Me Still Me?

August 1, 2017

Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Charlie Huenemann / 08.01.2017 Professor of Philosophy Utah State University I am stranded...

Philosophy has a Lot to Learn from Film

Philosophy has a Lot to Learn from Film

July 14, 2017

Machiko Kyō and Toshiro Mifune in Kurosawa’s Rashômon (1951) / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Costica Bradatan / 07.03.2017 Professor...

What Can Avicenna Teach Us about the Mind-Body Problem?

July 7, 2017

Illustration by Fumitake Uchida By Dr. Peter Adamson / 09.09.2016 Professor of Philosophy Ludwig Maximilian University of...

What would Leibniz Say about the Schisms in Europe Today?

July 6, 2017

By Dr. Maria Rosa Antognazza / 11.30.2016 Professor of Philosophy King’s College London A nation is either...

Plato’s ‘Republic’ and an Ancient Athenian Immigrant

December 25, 2025

Wikimedia Commons By Dr. David V. Johnson / 03.20.2017 Writer/Editor Stanford Social Innovation Review When it comes...

René Descartes was Wrong about Personhood

June 29, 2017

Detail from Young Moe (1938) by Paul Klee. Courtesy Phillips collection / Wikimedia Commons By Abeba Birhane / 04.17.2017 PhD...

The Pitfalls of Respecting the Wishes of the Dead above the Living

June 22, 2017

A Roman mosiac of the dead enjoying life, recently discovered in Hatay, Turkey. / Photo by Anadolu,...

What the Death of an Oak Tree Can Teach Us about Mortality

June 19, 2017

The Basking Ridge oak tree / Wikimedia Commons By Gabriel Popkin / 12.06.2016 Amid this year’s titanic...

How Camus and Sartre Split Up Over the Question of How to be Free

June 19, 2017

Albert Camus by Cecil Beaton for Vogue in 1946 / Photo by Getty Images By Sam Dresser...

Logic: Categorical Propositions and Syllogisms

July 7, 2023

Image via Shutterstock By Dr. Garth Kemerling / 11.12.2011 Professor of Philosophy Capella University Categorical Propositions Now...

We Could All Do with Learning How to Improvise a Little Better

June 14, 2017

Well improvised; Dizzy Gillespie at Deauville, France in 1991 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Stephen T. Asma...

Simone de Beauvoir’s Political Philosophy Resonates Today

June 14, 2017

Simone de Beauvoir in Paris in 1949. / Photo from Elliot Erwitt, Magnum By Dr. Skye C. Cleary...

Logic: Arguments, Language, Meaning, and Fallacies

November 24, 2025

Photo by JacoTen, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Garth Kemerling / 11.12.2011 Professor of Philosophy Capella University Arguments...