Albert Camus Camus: Between Yes & No Ray Boisvert tells us about Camus’ essential ambivalence towards the world. If ever there were a poster child for French meritocracy, it would be Albert Camus. He ...

Articles The Philosophy of Organism Peter Sjöstedt-H introduces Whitehead’s organic awareness of reality. The philosophy of organism is the name of the metaphysics of the mathematician and philosopher ...

Empathy Physicalism & Empathetic Understanding Michael Philips argues that the possibility of empathy is incompatible with the idea that the world is physical through and through. A few years ago I ...

Articles Lottery or Lootery? Gordon Giles asks whether the national lottery is immoral. It is impossible to contemplate the ethical value of something unless one knows what it is. Where the National ...

Nietzsche Reloaded Nietzsche’s Übermensch: A Hero of Our Time? Eva Cybulska dispells popular misconceptions about this controversial figure. “Man is a rope, fastened between animal and Übermensch – a ...

I recently uncovered the nature of reality from a man on a flaming pie, who handed me a herbal cigarette. I now know that previously I was a body in a vat being poked by a malignant demon. I was only ...

‘Meaning’ is a word referring to what we have in mind as ‘signification’, and it relates to intention and purpose. ‘Life’ is applied to the state of being alive; conscious existence. Mind, ...

Articles Wasps on Autopilot Katharine Merow asks what’s buzzing around in the head of the Sphex wasp. Folks who think about thinking for a living have a favorite genus of wasp. These cognitive ...

I think we can assume that what Zarathustra whispered in her ear was the thought of Eternal Recurrence, and that it was this to which she replied, “O Zarathustra, You know that?”She is correct in one ...

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 ...

Philosophy & Love Singer & Santayana On Love Tim Madigan considers the ideals and the realities of love. Love but the formless and eternal Whole From whose effulgence one unheeded ray Breaks on this ...

Philosophical Science Chaos & An Unpredictable Tomorrow Peter Saltzstein finds that Chaos Theory yields unexpected philosophical results. The future is not what it used to be. I mean, an intriguing ...