Brief Lives Etienne de la Boétie (1530-1563) Martin Jenkins looks at the life of an influential early political philosopher. Etienne de la Boétie is probably best known in the English-speaking world ...

Science & Morality Science & Philosophy: A Beautiful Friendship Amy Cools reminds us why science needs philosophy. There’s been some very public dig-taking between the science and philosophy camps ...

Articles What’s So Simple About Personal Identity? Joshua Farris asks what you find when you find yourself. Materialists or physicalists are philosophers who believe that humans are completely ...

Free Will The Brain’s Risk/Reward System Makes Our Choices, Not Us Graham W. Boyd argues that choice is an illusion. “Recently I was trying to explain to an intelligent woman the problem of trying to ...

Articles How I Solved Hume’s Problem and Why Nobody Will Believe Me Eugene Earnshaw saves Western philosophy. It was a few years ago that I solved the biggest problem in philosophy. I was teaching ...

Articles E.O. Wilson on the Foundations of Ethics Can gene-culture evolution, rather than philosophy, answer our deepest ethical questions? Torin Alter on moral values and the appliance of science.

Books Heidegger’s Feeble Excuses John Mann reviews Martin Heidegger: A Political Life by Hugo Ott. Martin Heidegger was arguably the most important philosopher of the twentieth century. According to ...

Question of the Month What Is The Future Of Humanity? The following philosophical forecasts of our fate each win an unforeseeable book. From the onset of the Industrial Revolution, human progress has ...

Articles Nietzsche on Love Willow Verkerk considers what Nietzsche has to teach us about love. What could Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) have to teach us about love? More than we might suppose.

Heresy The Truth about Heresy? Grant Bartley lays down the law in favour of the ‘right’ sort of heresy. “Religions are kept alive by heresies, which are really sudden explosions of faith. Dead ...

Articles The Meaning of ‘Meaning’ Stephen Anderson asks what we mean when we ask if existence has a meaning. In their 1983 film The Meaning of Life, Monty Python took their departing shot at the movie ...

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 ...