What is the relation between the mind (thoughts, perceptions, sensations, emotions) and the physical body? The traditional answer, assumed by all religions that believe in an afterlife, is dualism: ...

What influence did René Descartes' concept of mind-body dualism have on early modern conceptions of the self? In “The Matter of Mind,” Christopher Braider challenges the presumed centrality of ...

The Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies (IISF) will host, from April 10 to 18, the interdisciplinary seminar 'The Theory of Birth and its Philosophical Implications', curated by Emanuela ...

In the early 20th Century, the British philosopher Gilbert Ryle coined the term “ghost in the machine”. Writing in The ...

We are very blessed, as a Christian church, to have letters passed down to us that were written in the first century; letters, for example, between the Apostle Paul to one of the new young church ...