The Philosophers' Magazine

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.