I just received a copy of a new book edited by Emory University professor Dr. Jonathan Crane called Beastly Morality: Animals as Ethical Agents (the Kindle edition can be found here). I have an essay ...

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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 ...

One of the fondest memories that most people have is that of their grandparents telling them stories. We remember those stories even after we grow up and it is also then that we realise that all those ...

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To call Sam Harris a divisive figure is to put it mildly. Harris — along with Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens — is considered one of the most influential members of the ...

A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE (312 pp.)—Werner Bergengruen—Thames & Hudson ($3). The evil that the people of Cassano did one Renaissance summer may not have lived after them, but it certainly mushroomed ...