Berit Brogaard asks, does the idea of irrational love make sense?
Our Children, Our Selves
Jean Kazez takes up the connection between parental love and self-love.
What is This Thing Called Perception?
Kirk Ludwig explores John Searle’s latest book.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: a snapshot
Jamie Ranger on the father of anarchism.
Issue 70 Forum: Love
Philosophers have been going on about love almost since the beginning. The pre-Socratics had odd things to say about love as a force binding the basic elements of matter to one another, but of course it’s Plato’s Symposium that really started us thinking about love, though it hasn’t just been the Greeks. Philosophers as varied […]
Same-Sex Marriage and Liberty
Douglas Walton and Fabrizio Macagno argue that what marriage means depends on who has the power to define it.
Love and Acceptance
Tony Milligan on what it means to be loved for who you are.
When Pain Isn’t Painful
David Bain considers a case that casts doubt on the old armchair intuition that pain is essentially unpleasant.
Meeting Caitlyn
Jean Kazez on love, friendship and gender.
The Five Parameters
Phil Hutchinson and Rupert Read consider the nuclear option.
The Skeptic: Presence of Mind
Wendy M Grossman on the rise of the machines in theatre and cinema.
Philosophy, Academic Philosophy, and Philosophy for Children
Michael Lacewing on the different guises of philosophy, and what teaching tells us about them.