In times of philosophical/cultural/political/racial/ethnic/gender — you name it — discord and division like we experience today, it is more important than ever to ...

The World Humanist Conference in Oxford at the weekend struck me as a completely religious gathering, even though it is predicated on atheism. If it hadn’t been for the words of the sermons, we might ...

Religions, despite what people think of as their personal consolations, have not served the world well. They create division and conflict, they impose unlivable moralities of denial and limitation, ...

One of the quirks of book publishing is that a finished manuscript can sit around for nearly a year before it finally appears in hardcover. For most authors, this long liminal existence is a source of ...

If someone says “humanism in medicine,” what does that mean to you? How do we define a humanistic physician? Many will consider qualities that emphasize connection between the physician and their ...

Sustaining integral humanism is not about recovering a lost past, but about correcting an imbalanced present by ensuring ...

To commentators on Fox news, this is a no-brainer. Of course, humanism is completely hedonistic, they’d pontificate. Assuming some sort of ultimate moral authority, pundits from Bill O’Reilly to Glenn ...

Matthew Sharpe receives funding from the ARC for work on the history of philosophy as a way of life. Asked what was presently vexing him, the bard’s troubled Hamlet replies “words, words, words”. Here ...