The prevailing notion is that the Alanis Morissette's song “Ironic” is not ironic at all, but instead simply full of bummers, ...

As a Catholic philosopher and avid student of Aquinas, I am always fielding questions about whether this medieval saint is ...

San Francisco State University student Armin Abolhassani originally transferred to the school as an English major but ...

The Assisted Dying Bill has caused vigorous and emotional debate, from all sides. Here we look at the philosophical argument ...

Ending a close friendship because of different political beliefs may be liberating or a source of grief. It probably will be ...

I admit that time confuses me, probably because I do not fully comprehend the idea. For me, it has never been about the sound of a clock ticking or looking at the digital display on a watch face.

Throughout the course of history, many thinkers have tried to define happiness in a multitude of ways. They have given ...

Unthinkable: In the case of voting, the critical question is not the “mom litmus test” but the “child, or future citizen, ...

Martin Heidegger, one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the 20th century, fundamentally reshaped modern thought with his exploration of Being .

We live in an era of increasing tribalism and self-righteousness, made more toxic by social media. Philosopher Mark Kingwell ...

Concepts of film as grammar, syntax, code, rhetoric, or other facilities of language have frequently popped up in many works ...

Some years ago, I was rushing past the treasures of the Louvre in Paris, on the way to the "Mona Lisa," when a painting stopped me in my tracks.