Ray Boisvert tells us about Camus’ essential ambivalence towards the world. If ever there were a poster child for French meritocracy, it would be Albert Camus. He was not yet two when his father was ...

Robert J. Sawyer is one of the best known sci-fi authors of today. Nick DiChario talks to him about the philosophical ideas embedded in his books. Robert J. Sawyer is one of the most popular and ...

Patricia Railing explains the philosophical ideas behind some of abstract art’s most famous abstractions. There has been much philosophical speculation on the relationship between artistic materials ...

Samuel Kaldas compares two views on the nature of animals and their implications for our moral responsibility towards them. “No one understands animals who does not see that every one of them, even ...

David Frost considers Nietzsche’s diet and lifestyle tips. Most of us want to do the right thing and make the right decisions. But what is the morally right thing? And what makes it morally right?

Brian King seeks the possible evolution of morality through computer simulations. The Prisoner’s Dilemma is a game that you win by getting the lowest number of years in jail. Imagine you are one of ...

Eugene Earnshaw saves Western philosophy. It was a few years ago that I solved the biggest problem in philosophy. I was teaching undergraduates, and I wanted to blow their minds a little, tear down ...

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The following answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book. The questions ‘What is philosophy and how do we do it?’ are indicative of the answer: philosophy critically ...

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 birth of Karl Popper, and almost sixty ...

Susan Lucas on how words gain meaning from their context. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is perhaps one of the most startlingly original pieces of philosophy ever written. It has been ...

Richard Baron finds that philosophy need not be taxing. In the Western world the proportion of the economy controlled by the state has grown enormously over the last century, and pressures on the ...