Dreams and dreaming really stirred up Rene Descartes. And so they should, because dreams bring up a bunch of conceptual matters that largely remain unresolved.

Mottainai combines elements of Buddhism and Shinto to create a nuanced approach to the environment and wasteful practices.

When choosing to become a vampire isn't that far off from choosing to become a parent.

It was the day a philosopher and a physicist slugged it out—in the red corner was Albert Einstein, in the blue was Henri Bergson—and their bone of contention was the true nature of time.

'Tis the season of love, goodwill, and honed calculations—the rise of the new altruist.

We know from experience that talk of race can quickly lead to racism, yet we cling to it as something useful. So how should race be understood?

Graduate business schools are not in the habit of teaching existentialism for fun and profit. But it’s possible that today’s captains of commerce are missing a big opportunity to better understand tomorrow’s economic environment.

Is it time for a better explanation of Freud’s concept of the unconscious?

Ontology and metaphysics—what things are in the world and what might unify them—can set many philosophical traps. Simple questions can lead to strange places.

The sting of shame still hurts. Explaining its enduring hold takes some conceptual rigour.