Tag Archives: Philosophy

In 'Physics for Cats' Tom Gauld returns with more science comics collected from New Scientist, featuring machines, theories, and cats.

If you want a new outlook on life, read this book.

The English philosopher and aesthete reminds thinking people – and especially liberals – that despite rampant know-nothingism on today's political right wing, the conservative movement has always had an intellectual foundation.

The irony of 'The Hard Problem' is that, despite its insistence on the fact that the human brain is so much more complex than a computer, which functions via simplistic binaries and calculations, the whole play is reducible to a simplistic, and false, binary.

The author examines the often overlooked role of atheism in the history of Western civilization.

Hiding behind the humanist shield to deflect scientific discourse isn't a pass for legislating guesses.

de Heer's newest "Discovery in Comics" wittily explores the history of scientific thought and exploration.

A Dutch cartoonist wittily examines the basics of Western thinking.

Art is a focus and a discipline. Allowing a lack of either to slither in under the definition of art is a travesty.

A World of Ideas II: Great Thinkers is an engrossing interesting collection of conversations with great minds of our time.