THE ISSUE: "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" refers to the famous 1897 editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church in The Sun newspaper, a response to 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon asking ...

As Neo faces infinite Agent Smiths in The Matrix Revolutions, a 2,500-year-old Upanishadic prayer quietly unfolds in the ...

Across South Asia, philosophers have asked two enduring questions: What is consciousness? And what shapes the world we live ...

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, ...

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously writes about life being ‘nasty, brutish, and short’ ( Leviathan, 1652), but it wasn’t the latter for him. In fact, he lived a very long life. Back in his day, the ...

In the vast and intricate library of global theology, few questions are as philosophically daring as the identity of Sri ...

Greek philosopher Aristotle believed God is the Prime Mover of the universe. Fresco depicting Aristotle with his students. Painting by Gustan Adolph Spangenberg c. 1883-1888 Public Domain Aristotle ...

A long-standing problem in Aristotelian scholarship concerns the question of how to reconcile Aristotle’s twofold description of metaphysics as ontology (the universal science of being qua being) and ...

Metaphysics has never had a “fun” reputation. Many people—if they’ve even heard of the M-word— tend to associate it with woozy, abstract lectures about time and space that spiral into confusion and ...

The Mind, Language and Metaphysics research cluster is the largest group in the department and covers a broad range of key philosophical disciplines and philosophical methodologies. We have ...

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 ...