Posted on September 20, 2022 Leave a Comment
I’ll outline the main features of animal welfare and animal rights arguments. At the end, I’ll mention some dissenting voices from both of these strands.
Posted on July 19, 2022 2 Comments
The position that I have free will seems untenable for anyone less mighty than God. The position that I don’t have free will seems so far from being right that it isn’t even wrong.
Posted on May 19, 2022 Leave a Comment
Should we identify what gives meaning to our lives and pursue that? Or should we try to wean ourselves from the felt need for meaning?
Posted on March 28, 2022 Leave a Comment
Is death a misfortune at all? The Greek philosopher Epicurus thought not. Death can’t be bad for you, he argued, because you don’t experience its badness.
Posted on December 27, 2021 Leave a Comment
How can you learn anything from a book full of events that, by the author’s own admission, are completely made up?
Posted on December 7, 2021 1 Comment
A lively philosophical personality shines through the text. Zhuangzi has the serene vision of a mystic and the lively wit of an inveterate jokester.
Posted on November 7, 2021 Leave a Comment
Both Socrates and Oedipus receive oracular answers that tell them who they are, and these obscure answers launch them on a quest of self-understanding.
Posted on October 27, 2021 Leave a Comment
Suppose you could remove all the obstacles to a free and happy life: what would you do then? This is the question Aristotle wants to focus us on.