The fact that one was deceived by adults about the existence of Santa, yet eventually discovered the deception, is good evidence that one is developing the ability to find and discard false beliefs.

Fiction Cave Girl Principles Larry Chan takes us back to the dawn of thought. Stick was curled on a rock jutting out of the ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Articles Seeing & Knowing Shashwat Mishra explores the limits of perception via the Molyneux problem. The Molyneux problem is ...

Tallis in Wonderland “I refute it thus” Raymond Tallis kicks immaterialism into touch. Readers may be familiar with Bishop ...

Robert Stern FBA (1962-2024) was a British philosopher who served as a professor of philosophy at the University of Sheffield ...

One definition of ‘computer’ is, ‘one who computes’. So you can make a conscious computer by procreating! Your conscious offspring, suitably educated, will be capable of elaborate computation, maybe ...

The Art of Living Seneca On Anger Massimo Pigliucci tells us how to avoid becoming irate. Got an anger problem? If you decide to read just one book on the topic, it should be On A ...