Smack bang in the middle of your brain sits a tiny structure called the pineal gland, which has puzzled neuroscientists and ...

Nature is the primordial productivity of being itself: the living ground from which both subject and object arise. It is a self-developing organism, not a mechanism; the inner creativity of the world, ...

By Ben BRAKOFor centuries, African spiritual philosophy was corralled at the margins of global thought—reduced by colonial narratives to folklore, or dismissed by rationalist currents as ...

Explore how the faith has flourished in Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, and other countries in this religiously ...

A new book argues that some proponents of “neurotheology” misstate the relationship between our bodies and our souls. What exactly am I? And what are you? The nature and essence of human beings is one ...

Philosophical Studies was founded in 1950 by Herbert Feigl and Wilfrid Sellars to provide a periodical dedicated to work in analytic philosophy. The journal remains devoted to the publication of ...

Philosophy stretches beyond classroom discussions and dense textbooks. It permeates art, literature, and yes, even anime. While Japanese animation might seem an unlikely medium for exploring ...

The article refers to Gilbert Ryle’s “ghost in the machine” criticism of Descartes’ substance dualism. What did Ryle mean by this? Can you explain his assertion that Cartesian dualism commits a ...

With every sounding out of an idea like “you create your reality” or “you can will something into existence”, a critic of this position will be on hand to dismiss it as pseudo psychology. Another ...