The following answers to this artful question each win a random book. Art is something we do, a verb. Art is an expression of our thoughts, emotions, intuitions, and desires, but it is even more ...

Ross Naidoo looks at Indigenous thinking through a philosophical lens. The Indigenous or Aboriginal peoples of Australia speak several hundred distinct languages, distributed across a vast continent.

Buddhists paint vivid depictions of different forms of life: hungry ghosts at the peripheries of our world, or subterranean hell dwellers, for example. Such portrayals challenge modern sensibilities, ...

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In a clearing on the edge of the woods, a flying saucer stands on spindly legs among the still-smouldering vegetation. A door slides open, ...

Massimo Pigliucci surveys the views of ancient schools. As we all know, the telos of life is eudaimonia. Or to use English, the goal of life is happiness. This immediately leads to two crucial ...

Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad, lawyer and theologian, is well-known in Iran for bringing religion closer to the people, AmirAli Maleki asks him about Islam and philosophy. What is Islamic philosophy? What ...