In a story from the early 1980s, Captain America uses his amazing powers to destroy a renegade American intelligence agency that is plotting an attack on the Soviet Union in order to make the United ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...

If you are not yet familiar with philosopher G. E. M. Anscombe, her influential life is memorably summed up here. For a thorough overview of her thought, please see the entry written by philosopher ...

Sir Bernard Williams, an educator and author who is considered one of the greatest British philosophers of his generation and credited with reviving the field of moral philosophy, has died. He was 73.

How much should mere chance play in our views of praise or blame? That’s the question that Philip Swenson, first-year assistant professor of philosophy at William & Mary, is researching and discussing ...

The impulse to wish harm on others may come naturally, but that doesn’t make it right. By Sasha Mudd Dr. Mudd is an assistant professor of philosophy. The other day, my 7-year-old, having gotten wind ...

Iris Murdoch wrote about a post-Christian world that is now our milieu (Photo credit: Alamy) “The most obvious difference between nineteenth-century novels and twentieth-century novels is that the ...

Tracing the transformation of moral philosophy through the friendships of four utterly unique women who gathered around Oxford in the mid-20th century requires getting those four people into a room ...

Laura D'Olimpio is a committee member of the Federation of Australasian Philosophy in Schools Associations (FAPSA). One of the interesting questions we face as philosophers who are attempting to make ...

The deepening fall semester brings an evergreen challenge to both instructor and students — how best to reconcile one’s personal beliefs with often conflicting demands of the workplace and its ...