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What are the humanities? Who needs the humanities? Two questions I needed to address when I became dean of a School of Humanities. Those questions are not merely relevant in university politics. They are relevant to students and academics, and to all humans who think about humans, others and ourselves. To argue for the relevance […]
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The decorative work on the iwan, sponsored by Shah ʿAbbas I, Safavi Photo © 2021 Shivan Mahendrarajah
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My book Aristotle on Thought and Feeling concerns the relationship between thought and feelings (including desires), a topic that has exercised philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and, most recently, neuroscientists. I concentrate on the philosophical aspects of Aristotle’s account and his account of human psychology, but I also pay attention to Aristotle’s references to Greek tragedy. […]
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David Merritt, author of PROSE Award winning book "A Philosophical Approach to MOND: Assessing the Milgromian Research Program in Cosmology” discusses the competing theories of MOND and LCDM ‘Suppose that the dark-matter detection experiments continue to fail. How can we hope to ever decide between the two competing theories?’
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Who gets to interpret scripture? Is God’s speech clear enough for everyone to understand, or does interpreting God’s speech require expertise? Are Muslims required to understand their religion through traditional scholarly institutions or approach scripture directly? These questions have been at the center of one of the most contentious and pervasive debates in Islam in […]
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Thoreau’s Religion is a book about Henry David Thoreau and environmental justice. But Stanley Cavell put the question well when he asked, in the preface to The Senses of Walden (Viking Press, 1972), “What hope is there in a book about a book?” In my most ambitious vision for the book, it will be viewed […]
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Anyone wishing to understand the Christian tradition deeply must consider the central, formative role of Platonism. At various times Platonism has constituted an essential philosophical and theological resource, furnishing Christianity with a fundamental intellectual framework that has played a key role in its early development, and in subsequent periods of renewal. Alternately, at other times, […]
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Simon Friederich, author of Multiverse Theories: A Philosophical Perspective discusses the “multiverse” idea. What the idea entails and whether it can truly be tested.
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