Metaphysics has never had a “fun” reputation. Many people—if they’ve even heard of the M-word— tend to associate it with woozy, abstract lectures about time and space that spiral into confusion and ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – If life is a closed system, with no afterlife offering the possibility of either misery or bliss, then death should be the ultimate protection from harm. But David Boonin a professor ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Promoting academic literacy on non-Western traditions of philosophy, Philosophy East and West has for over half a century published ...

What is language? What is beauty? Who gets to decide? Philosophers have grappled with these questions for centuries, and they've generated a pile of long (and often tortured) books in their efforts to ...

Archbishop Franz Lackner of Salzburg is the new president of the Austrian bishops’ conference, succeeding Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, who held the office for 22 years. Lackner is pictured in ...