Finding clear definitions for terms in philosophy can be challenging. It doesn't have to be this way.

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Consider two different characters: Alanna and Brent. Both Alanna and Brent refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine, but their motivations are different. Alanna believes...

[New Entry by Nicolas Clerbout and Zoe McConaughey on February 4, 2022.] [Editor’s Note: The following new entry by Nicolas Clerbout and Zoe McConaughey...

Erica Stonestreet asks, are we too quick these days to break off relationships? Continue reading . . . News source: Philosophy Now

[New Entry by John Stanton-Ife on January 29, 2022.] [Editor’s Note: The following entry is not just an update but a rewrite of the...

[New Entry by Daniel Muñoz on January 25, 2022.] Moral philosophy is often said to be about we owe to each other. Do we...

Where does philosophy belong? In lecture halls, libraries, and campus offices? In town squares? In public life? One answer to this question, exceedingly popular...

In ‘Why I Am Not a Utilitarian’, Michael Huemer objects that “there are so many counter-examples, and the intuitions about these examples are strong...

A group of partisans burst into the Council Chamber and summarily killed the leaders of the opposing party, which represented the majority. The year...

[Revised entry by Robert Johnson and Adam Cureton on January 21, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) argued that...

In ‘Emergence and Incremental Impact’, I argued (contra Kingston and Sinnott-Armstrong) that emergent properties do nothing to undermine the basic case for individual impact:...