Death & The Philosopher

Raymond Tallis on philosophical attitudes to non-being.

Kant &The Human Subject

Brian Morris compares the ways Kant’s question “What is the human being?” has been answered by philosophers and anthropologists.

Eating Stupid Pigs

Marco Kaisth asks, could radical genetic engineering create ethical factory farms?

Doctor-Patient Relationships

Paul Walker ponders the best type of relationship between a doctor and a patient.

How Cubism Tried To Create A New Language

Stuart Greenstreet wonders why Cubist communication failed to catch on.

The Experience Machine And Psychiatric Drugs

Emil Asplund & Erik Gustavsson try to find the truth about medication.

Pugnacious In The Punjab

Seán Moran considers holy war in Lahore.

Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990)

Alistair MacFarlane considers the modes of life of a conservative philosopher.

Perfectionism & Hate Speech Law

Shaun O’Dwyer on reconciling free speech with protection against hate speech.

The Rise Of The Intelligent Authors

Lochlan Bloom wonders what writers will do when computers become better writers than humans.

The Truth

Kaya York tries to comprehend Everything.

The Passionate Bertrand Russell

Peter Stone reveals the deep and varied passions of the analytic philosopher.

Bertrand Russell On - The Value Of Philosophy For Life

John R. Lenz tells us why Russell thought philosophy worthwhile.

The Philosopher & The Scientist

Tony Simpson tells us how the Russell-Einstein manifesto led to Pugwash.

West World

Leo Cookman performs an Unheimlich manoeuvre to review a disturbing android saga.

Can The Multiverse Give You An Afterlife?

Rui Vieira says yes it can, of sorts.

Would Plato Allow Facebook In His Republic?

Jenni Jenkins argues, probably not.

Slavoj Zizek

In a London café, Anja Steinbauer chats with the philosopher who invented the word ‘idiosyncratic’.

Democracy & The Unreasonable: Lessons From Rawls

Francisco Mejia Uribe asks if democracy can overcome fundamentalism.

To Connect Or Not To Connect?

Dana Andreicut wonders whether, or not, to escape into the Matrix.

Robert Pirsig & His Metaphysics Of Quality

Anthony McWatt explores the philosophical ideas underlying the culture-changing 1970s blockbuster Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Elle

Terri Murray scrutinises a feminist film about a woman who desires her rapist. Warning: SPOILERS

Beyond Bullshit - Donald Trump's Philosophy Of Language

Chris Gavaler and Nathaniel Goldberg analyze Trump’s mode of communication.

Leibniz & The Big Bang

Eric Kincanon says that Leibniz could have predicted the Big Bang in 1715.