Havi Carel receives funding from the Wellcome Trust (Senior Investigator Award 103340). Serious illness is a great calamity. It is unwelcome, violent, frightening and painful. If it is life ...

Umair's a gaming enthusiast who loves to play through artistic Indie Games and delve deep into the lore of whatever Anime he's watching at the time. When you think about what motivates one to play ...

Immanuel Kant was famous for writing critiques. He earned his status as the premier philosopher of modern times with such works as Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason and Critique of ...

There is a relatively new movement in the world of counseling and psychotherapy known as philosophical counseling, or practice. I have frequently talked about it on this blog, but where can you go if ...

Around five years ago, David—a pseudonym—realized that he was fighting with his girlfriend all the time. On their first date, he had told her that he hoped to have sex with a thousand women before he ...

The following is adapted from “A Head That Throbbed Heartlike: The Philosophical Mind of David Foster Wallace,” an introduction to Wallace’s undergraduate honor thesis in philosophy, which has just ...