When the advances made by the Scientific Revolution were applied to machinery, the Industrial Revolution was born. The ...

She browsed further up the aisle, and stopped to consider the plastic deer: cutouts, less than an inch thick but nearly life-size in height and length. The bucks held their antlered heads high. The ...

Articles Wordsworth & Darwin Christine Avery wonders whether poetry can help us to deal with science. In his poetic ...

Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 was published over seventy years ago, in 1953, and yet continues to be a source of ...

A few weeks ago I bought two chrysanthemums for my windowsill. After giving them the dose of water they clearly missed in the ...

Here’s the main problem in a nutshell: The technologist is not an ethicist, and the ethicist is not a technologist.

Rather than dwelling on falsehoods and misinformation, I want to emphasize why truth and trust are so vital in politics. Understanding this relationship helps explain why figures like Trump have been ...

The place of women in Islam has always been controversial, especially as Islamic thinkers were always trying to describe the role of women using religious teachings.

Following a 1976 paper of the same name by Bernard Williams, in his 1979 paper ‘Moral Luck’, Thomas Nagel argued that even our moral score-card is partly a function of luck. For instance, it is easier ...

When Cicero (106-43 BCE) translated the Greek word ēthos into Latin as moralis, he preserved a fundamental concept: how we conduct ourselves in relation to others. The idea of acting well remains ...

Stephen Martin Fritz & Denise Morel contemplate what creates democracy. Vincent Di Norcia on monarchy and stability. Edward Hall argues that philosophers of immigration are not thinking it through.

“Hereditary states are much less difficult to hold than new states. If such a ruler is ordinarily diligent and competent his government will always be secure.” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1532) ...