Cheryl Misak reviews Benjamin Lipscomb's welcome corrective to a narrative that centers men at the heart of post-war Oxford philosophy.
In the second part of a new series for young people, Steven Campbell-Harris asks whether public decency laws are discriminatory.
Nicholas Whittaker investigates a core assumption of the modern world - that the need to be alone is a necessary feature of human life.
Vanessa Brassey on a philosophical puzzle.
In the first part of a new series for young people, Steven Campbell-Harris takes a look at the character of desire.
Justin Bernstein, Anne Barnhill and Travis Rieder argue that pandemic policymaking requires science, ethics and politics
Kerrie Grain looks at cancel culture 1970s-style and draws a comparison with the present day
Judith Suissa and Alice Sullivan elucidate the costs of curtailing academic freedom in debates over sex, gender and gender identity.
Piers Benn argues that cancel culture is real and it matters
Sebastian Sunday-Grève and Timothy Williamson discuss the question of where philosophy starts and the idea of philosophy as a non-natural science
Russell Blackford argues that a culture of cancellation has arisen that is unhealthy for democracy and academic life
Jeremy Stangroom casts a critical eye over some of the justifications offered for cancel culture.
But the robots are not what you think, argues Gabriele Contessa
David Birch looks at the interface between philosophy and monstrosity.
Julian Baggini reviews Kathleen Stock's controversial new book.
John Martin Fischer analyzes two tropes of political debate.
Alan Haworth weighs up John Rawls's monumental work of political philosophy.
Russell Blackford welcomes and defends The Journal of Controversial Ideas.
Eliot Michaelson, Jessica Pepp, and Rachel Sterken consider the implications of amplificatory speech in online communication.
Robin Jeshion discusses how philosophy of language has changed.
Sebastian Sunday Grève calls on us to decide what kind of life with machines we want.
Cheryl Misak reviews Benjamin Lipscomb's welcome corrective to a narrative that centers men at the heart of post-war Oxford philosophy.
In the second part of a new series for young people, Steven Campbell-Harris asks whether public decency laws are discriminatory.
Nicholas Whittaker investigates a core assumption of the modern world - that the need to be alone is a necessary feature of human life.
Vanessa Brassey on a philosophical puzzle.
In the first part of a new series for young people, Steven Campbell-Harris takes a look at the character of desire.
Justin Bernstein, Anne Barnhill and Travis Rieder argue that pandemic policymaking requires science, ethics and politics
Kerrie Grain looks at cancel culture 1970s-style and draws a comparison with the present day
Judith Suissa and Alice Sullivan elucidate the costs of curtailing academic freedom in debates over sex, gender and gender identity.
Piers Benn argues that cancel culture is real and it matters
Sebastian Sunday-Grève and Timothy Williamson discuss the question of where philosophy starts and the idea of philosophy as a non-natural science
Russell Blackford argues that a culture of cancellation has arisen that is unhealthy for democracy and academic life
Jeremy Stangroom casts a critical eye over some of the justifications offered for cancel culture.
But the robots are not what you think, argues Gabriele Contessa
David Birch looks at the interface between philosophy and monstrosity.
Julian Baggini reviews Kathleen Stock's controversial new book.
John Martin Fischer analyzes two tropes of political debate.
Alan Haworth weighs up John Rawls's monumental work of political philosophy.
Russell Blackford welcomes and defends The Journal of Controversial Ideas.
Eliot Michaelson, Jessica Pepp, and Rachel Sterken consider the implications of amplificatory speech in online communication.
Robin Jeshion discusses how philosophy of language has changed.
Sebastian Sunday Grève calls on us to decide what kind of life with machines we want.
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