Stan van Hooft, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University, devotes a chapter of his recent book on bioethics to the question of what death is. But why do we need to ask? Isn't it enough t...

Franz Kafka—author of The Trial, in which a man is unjustly accused and tried, and Metamorphosis, in which a man becomes a giant insect—is perhaps the modernist author most often discussed by philosop...

A few weeks ago, ABC TV ran a series - part documentary, part drama - about what volcanoes (and in particular the supervolcano under Yellowstone Park in the US) might do to us at some point in the fut...

In Easter week we examine a seasonal topic: contrition and apology. After Judas had betrayed Jesus, could he have known enough about the extent of guilt to be capable of adequate contrition? Do you need to feel contrite for your apology to have meaning? Do you, indeed, need to feel anything at all? And what about apologising for something that happened in the distant past, for which the community of which you are now a member was responsible, but in which you took no part?