Philosophical Reflections

It is often said that life is absurd. However, it is not always clear what exactly we mean by that. What, if anything, makes it absurd,...

Richard Taylor’s “The Meaning of Life”, published in 1970, [1] starts off with an analysis of the myth of Sisyphus, which Taylor intro...

I just stumbled across the following passage in an address that William James gave in 1897 on the occasion of the unveiling of the Robe...

In his paper “Against Narrativity” (in Real Materialism and Other Essays , Oxford: Clarendon Press 2008), Galen Strawson attacks two ...