Becky Lee Meadows considers questions of guilt, innocence, and despair in this classic Christmas movie. Frank Capra’s 1946 masterpiece It’s A Wonderful Life is regularly included in lists of the ...

Each answer below receives a random book. Apologies to the entrants not included. A computer is essentially an information processing device. The human brain can also be seen as an information ...

Shashwat Mishra explores the limits of perception via the Molyneux problem. The Molyneux problem is a philosophical thought experiment that has been the subject of debate for centuries. It poses this ...

Ignacio Gonzalez-Martinez has a flash of inspiration about the role metaphors play in creative thought. The equivalence between Richard Feynman’s and Julian Schwinger’s distinct formulations of ...

Musa Mumtaz meditates on two maverick medieval Muslim metaphysicians. Islam’s scriptural foundation, the Quran, unequivocally asserts as its core metaphysical tenet tawhid – the uncompromising and ...

Andrew Likoudis questions the basis of some popular atheist arguments. Proving or disproving the existence of God is predominantly a matter for reason, rather than for scientific enquiry. What are ...

“Return to God?” you ask, with exasperation or hope or some other fine emotion, depending upon your temperament and your theological opinions. Gentle reader, I was pulling your leg a little bit, as I ...

Seán Radcliffe asks, has Plato’s Allegory of the Cave been warning us of social media for 2,400 years? The ‘Allegory of the Cave’ is a Socratic argument recorded by the Greek philosopher Plato, a ...

Zdeněk Petráček looks at the biggest problem facing monotheism. The problem of evil is one of the most profound philosophical challenges to the belief in an omnipotent God. How can the existence of ...

Philip Goff grasps hold of the problem of evil and comes up with a novel solution. Human beings often get stuck in binary thought. Do you believe in souls, or do you think the mind is just the brain?

Amrit Pathak gives us a run-down of the foundations of modern atheism. Atheism, defined as belief in the absence of any God or gods, has long been a topic of philosophical inquiry. In recent years, ...

Richard Kamber considers the possibility of changing destiny. The eeriest episode in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (1843) is the visit to Ebenezer Scrooge of the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come.