Can philosophy improve religion and help us to understand God, or should philosophy and religion be kept separate, never the twain shall meet? In this paper, I will discuss the complicated and, I ...

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar... Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes. Okay stop me if you've heard this one. A ...

During most of my early adulthood, philosophy had little appeal to me. I lasted no more than three weeks in a Philosophy 101 class in college, perplexed and bored by the way that far-fetched ...

This post is Part 1 of a series. The German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, considered by many to be one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century, set out in his magnum opus, Truth and ...

This post is Part 3 of a series. In my first post of this series, I introduced Hans-Georg Gadamer’s way of seeing human understanding as a process of play—a back-and-forth communicative movement in ...

The ontological argument is the red-headed stepchild of philosophical arguments for the existence of God. Plantinga’s and other contemporary versions, like everything having to do with modal logic, ...

Whatever your career aspirations, the study of philosophy can help in strengthening your preparation through developing your capacities to think and reason well and to deal critically and analytically ...