metaphysics

My childhood dreams are shattering as I approach adulthood My childhood dreams are shattering as I approach adulthood

I used to believe in fantastic things of the imagination; now they all seem to be dead.
By Cary Tennis Mar 21, 2008

  • Envy is eating me alive

    I can't enjoy what others have because I compare it to what I have.
    By Cary Tennis February 23, 2007

  • Two weddings, one day, miles apart: What to do?

    Should I try to make it to an event for each, or just pick one and go? How do I choose? And what excuse do I give?
    By Cary Tennis September 21, 2006

  • "Click"

    Adam Sandler's latest movie packages metaphysical lessons with fart jokes and crude sex humor. How funny is that?
    By Andrew O'Hehir June 23, 2006

  • Everybody loves Spinoza

    Atheist Jew, champion of modernism, and kind and sociable man, the 17th century lens grinder who was "drunk on God" continues to win hearts and minds with his breathtaking philosophical vision.
    By Laura Miller May 17, 2006

  • Priests in lab coats

    Philosopher Michael Ruse is an ardent evolutionist who thinks creationism is claptrap. So why is he accusing atheistic scientists like Richard Dawkins of being as religious as born-again Bible thumpers?
    By Andrew O'Hehir August 6, 2005

  • "Strange Matters" by Tom Siegfried

    From strange quark matter to multiple universes, visionaries predict the weird things science has yet to discover.
    By Thomas Wilson September 24, 2002

  • Being Martin Heidegger

    His new translator tells you what you need to know about the philosopher -- and why you need to know it.
    By Ralph Brave November 13, 2000

  • "Being John Malkovich"

    Director Spike Jonze puts his brilliantly offbeat twist on the "15 minutes of fame" theory.
    By Andrew O'Hehir October 29, 1999

  • "The Iron Giant"

    The metal-machine sci-fi cartoon delivers robot action, retro nostalgia and stony metaphysics.
    By Mary Elizabeth Williams August 6, 1999

  • "The Metaphysical Touch"

    An ambitious first novel brings two wounded intellectuals together in cyberspace.
    By Andrew O'Hehir June 28, 1999

  • Buzzed on metaphysics

    David Cronenberg's "Existenz" imagines a dangerously exotic video game -- and it looks a lot like life.
    By Craig Seligman April 23, 1999

  • Anne Rice's "Servant of the Bones" Diary

    On Metaphysics, Howard Stern and the Pleasures of Tab
    By Anne Rice August 26, 1996
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