Articles The Success & Failure of Non-Violence Yoav Tenembaum asks when a policy of non-violence is feasible. Non-violence as a policy is based on the moral postulate that the use of force is ...

Books Driving the Ghost from the Machine Alan Brody reviews The Metaphysics of Mind by Anthony Kenny. The most famous theory in the philosophy of mind is René Descartes’ view that each human being ...

Fiction The Death of Pythagoras Bruce Pennington tells us how Pythagoras became a has-bean, while another Bruce Pennington drew the portraits… Shamanistic shyster or intellectual innovator, creative ...

Plato Plato’s Just State Chris Wright ponders Plato’s masterplan. One of the purposes of Plato’s Republic is to put forth a conception of the ‘just state’. Plato describes how such a state would be ...

Articles Science and Non-Science Pamela Irvin Lazorko briefly introduces what demarks science from non-science. The modern world has seen technological wonders multiply rapidly, made possible through ...

Articles The View from Mount Zapffe Gisle Tangenes describes the life and ideas of a cheerfully pessimistic, mountain-climbing Norwegian existentialist. “This world,” mused Horace Walpole, “is a ...

Articles Can Philosophy Still Produce Public Intellectuals? John Lachs criticizes the philosopher’s lack of public initiative. Plato accepted an invitation to serve as advisor to the ruler of Syracuse ...

Articles What Did Mary Know? Marina Gerner on a thought experiment about consciousness. Imagine a girl called Mary. She is a brilliant neuroscientist and a world expert on colour vision. But because ...

Articles The Singer Revolution Ethicist and animal rights advocate Peter Singer has faced public outrage over his views on infanticide and euthanasia. Richard Taylor explains why he regards Singer as ...

Articles Philosophical Misanthropy Ian James Kidd takes a look at humanity through dark glasses. The condemnation of humankind is very topical these days. Given the global environmental crisis, the ...

Articles Why You Shouldn’t Be A Person Of Principle Ramsey McNabb introduces moral particularism. Usually, when someone is called a ‘person of principle’ it is meant as a compliment. For the most part ...

Continental Thoughts A Radical Cure: Hannah Arendt & Simone Weil on the Need for Roots Scott Remer thinks we arendt happy without a community and considers the complete reconstruction of the modern ...