A general introduction to the problems and methods of philosophy drawing on classic and contemporary texts. Topics covered may include the existence of God and nature of religious belief, what it ...
Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...
Belfort Bax belonged to the first generation of British Marxists. He was the philosopher who introduced William Morris to dialectics. From… The following article was written for an on-line discussion ...
THIS clear and well-reasoned introduction starts from the classical problem of modern philosophical thought—sense perception and the knowledge we take to be based upon it. For the scientifically ...
To understand how the Decadent movement misinterpreted Japanese art, one must first understand how that art fit in its original cultural context. Western audiences are often chronically underexposed ...
A new introduction to philosophy studies the relativism of truth and different responses to opinions
You might have seen people saying things like, “This is my truth.” It looks like they’re merely describing their experience. In that case, it really isn’t their truth but THE truth about their ...
Session I PHIL 303 Ethics/COLL 200 (Lemos) Session II PHIL 210 Critical Thinking/COLL200 (Tucker) Fall 2023 PHIL 100 Critical Questions: Good God, Bad World/COLL 100 (Tucker) PHIL 100 Critical ...
As state universities cut back on humanities programs in order to deal with budget shortfalls, LaGuardia Community College in Queens, N.Y., is going in the opposite direction. At LaGuardia, philosophy ...
MR. SANTAYANA has a wonderful gift of expression and writes with a distinction and charm which are an unending source of delight. Yet he leaves his readers with a strange unsatisfied feeling not free ...
The following is adapted from “A Head That Throbbed Heartlike: The Philosophical Mind of David Foster Wallace,” an introduction to Wallace’s undergraduate honor thesis in philosophy, which has just ...
Can one lone pre-Socratic in a canoe teach you everything you failed to learn about philosophy in college? Of course (though how can you be certain that you actually exist, etc.)! In the entertaining, ...
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