Articles Ethics Made Easy: ‘Feel Good, Do The Right Thing’ Roy Turner thinks about being good. Kwame Anthony Appiah opens his Experiments In Ethics with the engaging claim that “this little book is an ...

Articles The Key Ideas of Western Philosophy John Greenbank searches history for answers to persistent questions. The history of philosophy must be understood as a series of serious intellectual and ...

Brains & Minds Philosophy of Mind: An Overview Laura Weed takes us on a tour of the mind/brain controversy. In the twentieth century philosophy of mind became one of the central areas of philosophy in ...

Articles Nietzsche and the Problem of Suffering Van Harvey on the metaphysical aspects of an anti-metaphysical philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche shared at least one fundamental concern with the ...

Articles ‘The Open Society’ Revisited Alan Haworth on Karl Popper, his vision of a pragmatic, liberal society, and his assessment of its philosophical enemies. It is now one hundred years since the ...

Utopia Plato’s Republic: A Utopia For The Individual Alfred Geier says it’s not about the state of the state. The Republic is Plato’s most famous dialogue, contains many of his best-known arguments ...

Problems of Belief & Unbelief Huxley’s Agnosticism Van Harvey reflects on Huxley’s and Clifford’s reasons for not believing. In the struggle against obscurantism and the appeal to blind faith that was ...

Articles What is Responsibility? Hans Lenk relates to different types of responsibility. In his The Devil’s Dictionary (1911), the well-known satirical writer Ambrose Bierce defined responsibility as: ...

Simon Blackburn is a Vice President of the British Humanist Association, a member of the Humanist Philosophers’ Group, a former Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and currently a ...

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Reading, Writing, Thinking The Twin Souls of Oscar Wilde and Friedrich Nietzsche Yahia Lababidi meditates on the aesthetics and ethics of two great contrarians. The externals of their lives could not ...