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?

Okasha explores the fascinating and complex links between evolutionary biology and rational choice theory...

Sometimes people are blameworthy or otherwise not admirable because of what they believe....

How does perception result in thoughts about items in the world (such as dogs or flowers) and in conscious states of many kinds (such as experiences of seeing red)?

Given our modern scientific view of the world, how is freedom of the will possible?

While there is a robust scientific consensus that there is no meaningful genetic basis for race, Russell’s analysis of the role of race in ARTs reveals that when it comes to producing kinship, race is still doing a great deal of work.

In order to explain thought in natural physical systems, mainstream cognitive science posits representations, or internal states that carry information about the world and that are used by the system to guide its behavior...

McGowen identifies a previously overlooked mechanism by which speech can be harm...

A close associate of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Anscombe contributed fundamental insights in philosophy of mind, action theory, and ethics...

Moral and political theorists have paid a healthy amount of attention to states’ rights to determine who may reside within their territory...

Jill Stauffer argues that survivors of unjust treatment and dehumanization can experience further harm when individuals and institutions will not or cannot hear the survivors’ claims...

Why do we put other animals in the various categories we do, and treat them in the various good and bad ways that we do?

Epistemologists working traditional modes have sought to discover the necessary and sufficient conditions under which one has knowledge...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

Elizabeth Schechter argues that while split brain subjects have two minds and two subjective perspectives, and are two intentional agents...

Our lives are shot through with contingency – where, when, and into what circumstances we are born is largely a matter of chance...

The existence of skepticism in Indian Philosophy has long been neglected in favor of dogmatic positions...

It seems to go against evolutionary theory for an individual to give up its own chances at reproducing in order to increase the fitness of others...

Even those among us who think that morality is rooted in timeless normative truths will acknowledge that the overall moral fabric that binds us to one another is subject to various kinds of renovation and expansion...