Why would an atheist spend two decades writing a commentary on the Bible? How should we think about pain when confronted by people who honestly say their pains don’t hurt? How does science get at the truth if all it can do is prove hypotheses wrong, never right? Is it […]
What’s the real value of philosophy? Can religious violence ever be justified? How should new thoughts about what makes us tick change our notion of self-knowledge? In an age of corporations, do we need new thoughts about when groups know something and when they’re responsible? How should we think about […]
Are there cool new waves in philosophical thinking, fresh ideas, novel problems and theories, perhaps avenues of research that have only just opened up? Of course there are. We asked 50 philosophers to tell us all about 50 new thoughts in philosophy, and this issue is devoted to what they […]
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What is wisdom? And why do modern philosophers hardly talk about it?
Claire Creffield moves in the direction of a constructive conversation between atheists and believers.
James Ladyman argues that philosophy’s inaccessibility is actually a good thing.
Helen de Cruz talks to Philosophy PhDs outside the academy who most definitely are not “slumming it”.
We need a whole different way to do ethics. A very old one, really.
Is the famous repugnant conclusion actually repugnant? Or even a conclusion?
