John Martin Fischer analyzes two tropes of political debate.
Essays
These are (mainly) longer form essays. Many of those written prior to 2024 also appeared in the print version of The Philosophers’ Magazine.
A Theory of Justice at Fifty
Alan Haworth weighs up John Rawls’s monumental work of political philosophy.
Oh No, That’s Controversial!
Russell Blackford welcomes and defends The Journal of Controversial Ideas.
Online Communication
Eliot Michaelson, Jessica Pepp, and Rachel Sterken consider the implications of amplificatory speech in online communication.
The Pure and the Practical
Robin Jeshion discusses how philosophy of language has changed.
Nietzsche and the Machines
Sebastian Sunday Grève calls on us to decide what kind of life with machines we want.
Harms, Wrongs, and Meaning in a Pandemic
F M Kamm on comparing deaths.
Diversify the Discipline
James Garvey introduces a series of articles on diversity in philosophy.
The Diversity of Philosophy Students and Faculty in the United States
Eric Schwitzgebel, Liam Kofi Bright, Carolyn Dicey Jennings, Morgan Thompson and Eric Winsberg explore recent data.
There Is Nothing More Philosophical Than Diversity
Simon Fokt describes the thinking behind the Diversity Reading List.