Mary Daly is a world-renowned Radical Feminist philosopher, theologian and author. Professor Daly, what is Radical Feminism? Well, I actually define that in my Wickedary, which is a ‘dictionary for ...

Frank Capra’s 1946 masterpiece It’s A Wonderful Life is regularly included in lists of the best-ever Christmas films. Though ...

In recent years, amidst a backdrop of growing secularization and cultural diversity, atheism has emerged as an prominent ...

For instance, God is a pure perfect intelligence – almost by definition as ‘the personal creator’. If he were only ...

Julia Nefsky on the curiously strong connections between logic and humour. What would you say if I asked you to describe humour? What type of ‘thing’ is it? Perhaps you’d say that humour is a form of ...

One familiar definition of a metaphor is that it is essentially a figure of speech which uses one thing to mean another by ...

Stephen Leach considers what Bertrand Russell thought about common sense & reality – and how the one does not necessarily show you the other. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) believed that reality is ...

We’ve seen that both sides of the God debate have something they can explain and something they can’t explain. Fortunately, ...

The problem of evil is one of the most profound philosophical challenges to the belief in an omnipotent God. How can the ...

Shamanistic shyster or intellectual innovator, creative charlatan or exalted pioneer of philosophy – however one views him, Pythagoras remains the most famous name at the starting gate of Western ...

Ontology is the branch of metaphysics which examines the nature and categories of existence. It asks questions like “What is the difference between really existing and only appearing to exist?”, “Does ...

Sophia Gottfried meditates on the emptiness of non-existence. In philosophy there is a lot of emphasis on what exists. We call this ontology, which means, the study of being. What is less often ...