Dispositionalism is the view that there are irreducible causal powers in nature that explain why objects behave as they do...

It is obvious that in our day-to-day lives, a lot hangs on trust, and thus on whether those around us are trustworthy...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Johnston traces the development of Žižek's recent thought in detail, salvaging the key philosophical themes while also offering several criticisms and developments of his own...

Dimova-Cookson offers an analysis of the distinction between positive and negative freedom building on the work of Constant, Green and Berlin...

Ecological psychology is one of a number of contemporary theories that explains the mind in terms of embodiment and environmental situatedness, rather than inner symbol manipulation by brains...

For those of you aware of the distinguished philosophical career of Hermann Cohen (1859 - 1918) and the absence of an intellectual biography in English, Beiser’s scholarship is a long time coming...

Danaher explores the issues facing us as we confront our own obsolescence. He defends the idea that a workless future is not only possible, but possibly utopian...

Trott argues for understanding the relationship of matter and form in Aristotle’s work on the model of a Möbius strip...

Adamson takes readers on a vivid – and accessible – journey through the intricate landscape of the philosophical world of Islam...

Peacocke argues for the idea that the metaphysics of the domain must always be involved – that one must always draw on facts about metaphysics to explain meaning but not vice versa..

When asked what democracy is, many of us instantly think of elections, and thus voting...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Talisse argues that contrary to what many democratic theorists have argued, democracy is something we can do too much of...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Mill’s life was in many respects unsatisfying – riven with anxiety and trauma...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Huseyinzadegan analyzes Kant’s political writings by attending to the role of history, anthropology, and geography in his thought...

Why do zebras have stripes?

Much of what we are able to accomplish in our day-to-day lives depends on the ability to act and think in concert with others...

Philosophy of Language was a central concern in classical Indian Philosophy....

At the start of the 19th century, the field we now call psychology was still the branch of philosophy that studied the soul...

The Wrong of Rudeness asks a key question for our times how do we interact with each other, especially in politically contentious situations?

For those who think that philosophy must speak to everyday experience and ordinary life, it would seem that philosophical questions occasioned by love and sex should take center stage...

What is the relationship between the form of writing and what can be thought?