An Catholic influencer wondered on X last May: “The big issue in question that I hope to resolve someday: how does Scholasticism (Thomism) fit with personalism?” Will she succeed? Is it possible? We ...

THE subject is on the curriculum of many departments of philosophy — Filipino philosophy. Leonardo Mercado, an SVD missionary and a prolific writer on the subject, has written repeatedly about it. I ...

In what was undoubtedly one of the highlights of the 2025 Durham Union calendar, Alex O’Connor’s address began as an interactive Q&A, exploring anything from veganism to the structure of consciousness ...

Source: Image created with ChatGPT/OpenAI This post is a continuation of a previous entry on the merits of analytical philosophy (see here for context). The reason, I suspect, that naturalistic ...

A good friend and distinguished Catholic commentator for many years called me this week to ask for my perspective on current U.S. foreign policy. It wasn’t the first time, and this time too I had ...

A Texas A&M professor has been told not to teach certain writings from Plato, a staple in introductory philosophy courses, because they may violate the university system's new rules against "advocate" ...

It’s a Wednesday night on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and roughly 75 people, sitting in groups of about four or five each, are engaged in zealous discussion in the library of a new private ...

Pope Leo XIII did not write "Rerum Novarum" and then retired. He did not write "Rerum Novarum" first. He did not place the most emphasis in his magisterium on the themes of "Rerum Novarum." He did not ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...

An organization encouraging the presence of “the Catholic intellectual tradition” in universities across the globe has a new leader. Dominican Father Ambrose Little has been appointed the new director ...