Overview What’s New in… Aesthetics Kai Hammermeister on the beauty business.. Aesthetics is the philosophical investigation of art and the theory of beauty and opposite phenomena, like the ugly, the ...

Richard Rorty is perhaps the best-known living philosopher in the Pragmatic tradition, and one of the most talked-about thinkers of the present day. He is a philosophy professor at Stanford University ...

Philosophy of Religion Religion and Truth Richard Taylor on the proper role of myths and mysteries.. The best way into our subject is through a look at ancient mythology. Consider, for example, the ...

The Art Issue Art As An Encounter Daniel Vargas Gómez considers what we encounter when we encounter art.. When Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) wrote Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Über ...

The Arts Art As Sensation: Four Painters As Philosophers Of Art Patricia Railing explains the philosophical ideas behind some of abstract art’s most famous abstractions.. There has been much ...

Articles An Essay on Nothing Sophia Gottfried meditates on the emptiness of non-existence.. In philosophy there is a lot of emphasis on what exists. We call this ontology, which means, the study of ...

Forms of Pacifism. Pacifism emerges as people take these moral restraints on war ever more seriously. Varieties of pacifism differ by degree. It is helpful to understand the various forms of pacifism ...

Science & Morality Einstein’s Morality Ching-Hung Woo looks at the many facets of Albert Einstein’s approach to ethics.. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) regarded morality as indispensable to the survival ...

Articles The Last Messiah The first English version of a classic essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, originally published in Janus #9, 1933.Translated from the Norwegian by Gisle R. Tangenes.. One night in ...

How To Think Resolving Paradoxes Noson Yanofsky tells us how to deal with contradictions and the limitations of reason that arise from them.. We all have conflicting desires. We want to get promoted, ...

Articles Philosophy & Cocktails Robin Small will have a Martini – stirred, not shaken.. Several books on wine and philosophy have appeared in recent years. Amongst these, Roger Scruton’s I Drink ...

Articles In Defense of Alain Badiou Robert Michael Ruehl describes new political possibilities.. In Issue 107, Philosophy Now published James Alexander’s ‘A Refutation of Snails by Roast Beef’, an ...