"Out of meat, how do you get thought? That's the grandest question." So said philosopher Patricia Churchland to Robert Lawrence Kuhn, the producer and host of the acclaimed PBS program, Closer to ...

In his first-year seminar dubbed “Could a Robot Ever Be Conscious?” Professor Richard Huskey guides students to discuss ...

Death is a subject that many people prefer not to discuss or consider, but a University of Houston-Victoria lecturer plans to ...

The hard problem of consciousness, which has framed consciousness research for a generation, needs to be split in two.

Famous philosophers like Socrates, Karl Marx, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Ayn Rand have challenged the way we consider the world and ...

Since the early 1990’s recognition theory, as advanced by Axel Honneth and others, has become a crucial framework for contemporary social research examining modern societal dynamics in a large number ...

Blue Ridge Community College Religion and Philosophy Instructor Eric Williamson has published his own textbook, ...

Years ago as kids, my friend Mark and I came up with what has come to be known in philosophical circles as the “Jelly Doughnut Theory.” Little did we realize ...

Kant's test of reversibility and principle of universalizability tell us whether an action is morally right or not. Let's ...

It took just minutes for the conspiracy theories about the 2024 US presidential election to flood Elon Musk’s X platform after Donald Trump was announced as the winner in the early hours of ...

The world’s richest man continued stumping for former President Donald J. Trump and pushing conspiracy theories about voting fraud. By Kate Conger On Election Day, Elon Musk used his X account ...

Philosophy isn't just about finding answers. It's about learning how to ask the questions. Philosophy at USD covers significant historical periods and most major philosophical methods. Philosophy ...