Philosophical Inquiry

"Skepticism" derives from the Greek word for "doubt." The Skeptic is one who doubts. But, doubts what? Here we should d...

In certain respects, possibly all, a computer could behave as a person. It couldn't be a person though. The human mind may have develope...

'Moral relativism' is one of the responses you sometimes hear people give in cases of ethical conflict. For example the Romans fed C...

There are many theories which try to explain why there is religion. Freud understood it as a kind of universal psychosis. Emile Durkheim, th...

People feel a need for a government — I include dictatorships here — because the alternative is anarchy and the lack of organization implied...

What we really are asking is whether there can be knowledge of the future which is not grounded on observation and memory. If Nostradamus ge...

God could make a stone heavier than he could lift, but if he ever did, he would be able to lift it. — What we have stumbled upon is a kind o...