Funny and readable, this story successfully pulls off the sci-fi alien point of view. Gene Snow Olsen’s "First Contact with Humans" nests philosophy, colonialism, and a first-contact scenario inside a Russian matryoshka doll of a... Read More

Young children instinctively use their imagination to learn about life. Unfortunately, that important ability can get pushed aside as they grow to adulthood. William Carpenter and Diana Soto have written an intelligent and well-organized... Read More

The scientific method of mechanism, by which the study of all things is broken down to their smallest building blocks and reassembled in hierarchical order, is the intellectual crowbar that tore down the religion-based myths that... Read More

Artist suggests combining academia and mysticism for a better understanding of Tarot card history and divination. Scholars of the Tarot and historians of the esoteric and mystic arts will find much to appreciate in Ronald Decker’s... Read More

In "The Inner Philosopher", sixteen profound yet lively conversations between two philosophers, one Western and one Eastern, bring to light the ways philosophy is essential to a full and meaningful human life—a life that can contribute... Read More

Nasr Saad is a man who asks weighty questions: How was the universe created? Is there life after death? Most importantly, he asks, Why have the disciplines devoted to such issues—religion, philosophy, and science—failed to provide... Read More

For those who aren’t steeped in philosophical study, the type of questions posed by a major philosopher like Plato can seem difficult to grasp without a knowledgeable guide. Fortunately, former professor Aviezer Tucker, author of Our... Read More

The author of "An Essay by a Modern Humanist" claims to be a modern humanist, scholar, and practitioner of humanism, a system of thought based in science and observation and conflicted with the models of medieval philosophies dictated by... Read More