Tracing the transformation of moral philosophy through the friendships of four utterly unique women who gathered around Oxford in the mid-20th century requires getting those four people into a room ...

Socrates is the most important exponent of Western philosophy, his ideas forming a continuum from Ancient Greece to today's ...

How much should mere chance play in our views of praise or blame? That’s the question that Philip Swenson, first-year assistant professor of philosophy at William & Mary, is researching and discussing ...

The Constitution Center’s Jeffrey Rosen wrote songs about the moral philosophy behind the Founding Fathers’ signature phrase.

If you are not yet familiar with philosopher G. E. M. Anscombe, her influential life is memorably summed up here. For a thorough overview of her thought, please see the entry written by philosopher ...

This course explores the history of moral philosophy by examining the writings of key thinkers in the Western philosophical canon, including Leibniz, Hume, Kant and Hegal. We will focus on four basic ...

Mainstream economics is obsessed with “maximizing” so-called utility functions and discovering the ubiquitous “social utility ...

A 2018 debate involving DePauw philosophy professor Erik Wielenberg over the question of whether objective morality requires the existence of God has been turned into a book. “A Debate on God and ...

Christopher Freiman, associate professor of philosophy at William & Mary, recently was compelled to write about his opinion on Americans’ obligation to allow immigrants the advantages of living in the ...

UNSW Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. In the first entry in this series of posts, I argued that “even for vigilante heroes, there are lines that cannot be crossed.” Most ...