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Nosferatu
Stefan Bolea considers two very different artistic approaches to love and death.
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April/May 2025
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Heidegger's Ghost
Raymond Tallis wonders where Heidegger's body went when he was philosophising.
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April/May 2025
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Is Comedy Good For Us?
Damaris Stock has a laugh with Plato and friends.
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April/May 2025
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In Defense of Idleness
Wendell O'Brien says, 'Just Don't Do It'.
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April/May 2025
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Leaving Nothing to Chance by Carl Knight
LEAVING NOTHING TO Chance (2025) by Carl Knight, is an informed, proficient and lucid defence of luck egalitarianism.
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April/May 2025
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Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
THE 1937 SCIENCE FICTION novel Star Maker was written by philosophy professor Olaf Stapledon in the dark days as Europe awaited the onslaught of Nazi Germany. This casts a shadow over the whole book.
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April/May 2025
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Love & Emptiness in the Sufi Tradition
Medha Ninad Tambe meditates on Rumi, love and self-negation.
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April/May 2025
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The Hedgehog's Dilemma: A Metaphor About the Challenges of Human Intimacy
Krishna Chaubey explains Arthur Schopenhauer's poignant thought experiment.
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April/May 2025
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The Mirror & the Flame
Rebwar Fatah imagines Attar's & Hegel's shared path.
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April/May 2025
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Free and Equal by Daniel Chandler
DANIEL CHANDLER, AN economist and philosopher based at the London School of Economics, begins Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? (2023) by asking an intriguing question. How is it, he wonders, that the most influential political philosopher of the last century has had almost no practical impact on politics or policy? The philosopher in question is John Rawls, whose magnum opus was A Theory of Justice (1971).
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April/May 2025
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A Memetic Analysis of Narratives & Conspiracies
Ignacio Gonzalez considers how memes replicate into conspiracy theories.
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April/May 2025
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Four Roles That Shape Life
Massimo Pigliucci considers persona development.
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April/May 2025
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Life Sacrifice
Yossra Hamouda on the murder of compassion & the act of mass murder.
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April/May 2025
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The Entanglement by Alva Noë
ALVA NOË ARGUES IN THE Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are (2023) that art and philosophy are not optional add-ons to ordinary life; they are practices that reshape how we perceive, act, and under- stand ourselves.
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April/May 2025
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Why Do People Hate Hypocrisy?
Emrys Westacott argues that it's not usually the hypocrisy itself that we hate.
10+ min |
April/May 2025
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Why Do The Evil Still Prosper?
Each answer below receives a book. Apologies to the entrants not included.
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April/May 2025
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Philosophers on Skiing
'More songs about Buildings and Food' was the title of a 1978 album by the rock band Talking Heads. It was about all the things rock stars normally don't sing about. Pop songs are usually about variations on the theme of love; tracks like Rose Royce's 1976 hit 'Car Wash' are the exception.
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April/May 2025
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Code of Conduct
J.C. Michaels contemplates corporate immorality and individual responsibility.
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April/May 2025
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Islamic Law, Reform & Philosophy
Oliver Leaman looks at philosophical problems related to basing law on religion.
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April/May 2025
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Xenophon (c.430-355 BC)
Hilarius Bogbinder looks at the life of the other biographer of Socrates.
7 min |
April/May 2025
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The Prayer the Machine Cannot Pray
Adnan Abbasi uses medieval metaphysics to understand modern Al.
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April/May 2025
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The Possibility- Bearing Animal
Raymond Tallis explores a twilight zone.
7 min |
February/March 2026
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Amazing Times at the Pub Agora
John Douglas Mullen is a philosophical bar fly on the wall.
8 min |
February/March 2026
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Hilarius Bogbinder considers the all too human life of the notorious iconoclast.
10+ min |
February/March 2026
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Heisenberg's Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
Kanan Purkayastha explains how Werner Heisenberg's 1925 paper turned the quantum theory of the early 1900s into the quantum mechanics of today.
10 min |
February/March 2026
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Cicero & the Ideal of Virtue
Abdullah Shaikh explores Cicero's ideas about the core Roman principle of virtus.
10+ min |
February/March 2026
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ROPE
Les Jones has a Nietzschean take on a Hitchcock thriller.
6 min |
February/March 2026
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What Have the Romans Ever Done For Us?
Salve! This issue's theme is Roman Philosophy. But as the rebels in Monty Python's Life of Brian asked, what have the Romans ever done for us? The question seems relevant here; we are philosophers, not archaeologists.
2 min |
February/March 2026
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Paul Guyer
Paul Guyer is an American philosopher and a leading scholar of both Immanuel Kant and aesthetics. AmirAli Maleki interviews him about Kant's political and moral vision.
9 min |
February/March 2026
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Identity in the Age of Connectivity
Sara Asran explores the dynamics of identity online.
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