The 1989 animated musical fantasy All Dogs Go to Heaven humorously poses the question do dogs go to heaven after their life on earth....

“The good is the only source of the sacred. There is nothing sacred except the good and what pertains to it.” – Simone Weil,...

“It is imagination which enlarges the bounds of possibility for us, whether for good or ill, and therefore stimulates and feeds desires by the...

Is there such thing as a truly selfless act? Nietzsche criticized selflessness and altruistic deeds as often being a display of weakness, decay and...

In our newest “how can we help you?” thread, a reader asks: I’m working on revising an R&R, but for one comment by a...

Ongoing developments in artifical intelligence, particularly in AI linguistic communication, will affect various aspects of our lives in various ways. We can’t foresee all...

The Swiss National Science Foundation recently announced which projects will be funded by their Starting Grants, and among them are two headed up by...

Those who have read previous essays of mine about music and composers know that I enjoy paying tribute to the lesser-known and unjustly neglected....

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.” – Thomas Paine, The American...

November continued our remarkable year of growth and transformation. Reviewing novels has entered our pages and will remain a staple going forward as we...

[Revised entry by Chris Mortensen on November 30, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Inconsistent mathematics is the study of the mathematical theories that...

“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read...