Ancient Philosophy
- How to Establish Social Order? Three Early Chinese Answers by Henrique Schneider
- Wu-Wei: Acting without Desire by Henrique Schneider
- Plato’s Form of the Good by Ryan Jenkins
- Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: the Journey Out of Ignorance by Spencer Case
- Why be Moral? Plato’s ‘Ring of Gyges’ Thought Experiment by Spencer Case
- Plato’s Crito: When Should We Break the Law? by Spencer Case
- Ethics and God: the Divine Command Theory and the Euthyphro Dilemma by Nathan Nobis
- Stoicism: Finding Happiness in What’s Under Your Control by Matthew Pianalto
- The Philosophy of Humor: What Makes Something Funny? by Chris A. Kramer
- Form and Matter: Hylomorphism by Jeremy W. Skrzypek
- Aristotle on Friendship: What Does It Take to Be a Good Friend? by G. M. Trujillo, Jr.
- Aristotle’s Defense of Slavery by Dan Lowe
- Virtue Ethics by David Merry
- Classical Syllogisms by Timothy Eshing
- Pyrrhonian Skepticism: Suspending Judgment by Lewis Ross
- Is Death Bad? Epicurus and Lucretius on the Fear of Death by Frederik Kaufman
- Ancient Cynicism: Rejecting Civilization and Returning to Nature by G. M. Trujillo, Jr.
Medieval Philosophy
- The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God by Andrew Chapman
- Cosmological Arguments for the Existence of God by Thomas Metcalf
- Avicenna’s ‘Proof’ for the Existence of God by Farbod Akhlaghi
Modern Philosophy
- Descartes’ Meditations 1-3 by Marc Bobro
- Descartes’ Meditations 4-6 by Marc Bobro
- “I think, therefore I am”: René Descartes on the Foundations of Knowledge by Charles Miceli
- Pascal’s Wager: A Pragmatic Argument for Belief in God by Liz Jackson
- Mary Astell’s “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies” by Simone Webb
- Social Contract Theory by David Antonini
- “Nasty, Brutish, and Short”: Thomas Hobbes on Life in the State of Nature by Daniel Weltman
- Rousseau on Human Nature: “Amour de soi” and “Amour propre” by Corey McCabe
- Psychological Approaches to Personal Identity: Do Memories and Consciousness Make Us Who We Are? by Kristin Seemuth Whaley
- Leibniz’s Principle of Sufficient Reason by Marc Bobro
- Philosophy of Space and Time: What is Space? by Dan Peterson
- Reason is the Slave to the Passions: Hume on Reason vs. Desire by Daniel Weltman
- Idealism Pt. 1: Berkeley’s Subjective Idealism by Addison Ellis
- Idealism Pt. 2: Kant’s Transcendental Idealism by Addison Ellis
- Deontology: Kantian Ethics by Andrew Chapman
- Kant’s Theory of the Sublime by Matthew Sanderson
19th and 20th Century Philosophy
- Nietzsche and the Death of God by Justin Remhof
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Tragedy: Why Do We Like Tragic Art? by Matthew Sanderson
- Marx’s Conception of Alienation by Dan Lowe
- Karl Marx’s Theory of History by Angus Taylor
- On Karl Marx’s Slogan “From Each According to their Ability, To Each According to their Need” by Sam Badger
- “Can They Suffer?”: Bentham on our Obligations to Animals by Daniel Weltman
- Mill’s Proof of the Principle of Utility by Dale E. Miller
- John Stuart Mill on The Good Life: Higher-Quality Pleasures by Dale E. Miller
- “The Ethics of Belief”: Is it Wrong to Believe Without Sufficient Evidence? by Spencer Case
- Phenomenology: Describing Experiences From a First-Person Perspective by Matthew Sanderson
- Heidegger on Being: Why is There Something Rather than Nothing? by Matthew Sanderson
- Martin Heidegger on Technology by Matthew Sanderson
- W.D. Ross’s Ethics of “Prima Facie” Duties by Matthew Pianalto
- Moore’s Proof of an External World: Responding to External World Skepticism by Chris Ranalli
- G. E. M. Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy” by Daniel Weltman
- African American Existentialism: DuBois, Locke, Thurman, and King by Anthony Sean Neal
- Responding to Morally Flawed Historical Philosophers and Philosophies by Victor Fabian Abundez-Guerra and Nathan Nobis
Non-Western Philosophy
- Dharma in Abhidharma Buddhism by Nicholaos Jones
- The Buddhist Theory of No-Self (Anātman/Anattā) by Daniel Weltman
- How to Establish Social Order? Three Early Chinese Answers by Henrique Schneider
- Wu-Wei: Acting without Desire by Henrique Schneider
- Mengzi’s Moral Psychology, Part 1: The Four Moral Sprouts by John Ramsey
- Mengzi’s Moral Psychology, Part 2: The Cultivation Analogy by John Ramsey
- al-Ghazālī’s Dream Argument for Skepticism by John Ramsey
- Avicenna’s ‘Proof’ for the Existence of God by Farbod Akhlaghi
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