Gary Watters puts Karl Marx’s most read books, “The German Ideology” into context, and explains its central arguments and ideas.
The Right to Believe
A Tour Around the Classics 1: William James, “The Will To Believe”
Foucault for Beginners: a review
Margaret Goord is impressed by a book on Foucault.
The Skeptic: issue 1
Introducing our regular column, The Skeptic. Wendy Grossman is a freelance writer and founder of the The Skeptic magazine
The Moral Case for Marxism
An interview with Gerry Cohen.
The Paradox of the Liar
Francis Moorcroft puzzles over the Liar Paradox.
Descartes and Hume on Human Nature
Francis Moorcroft takes a fresh look at how two giants of western philosophy differ in their analysis of human nature.
Open Debate: On What Sexism Is and What It Is Not
Can philosophers help clarify social and political debate by applying their analytic methods to areas of dispute? Dr Les Burwood certainly thinks they can and has written this essay, On What Sexism Is and What It Is Not as an attempt to distinguish the different uses of the term “sexism” and their legitimacy. For this Open Debate we invited objections to Dr Burwood’s thought-provoking and controversial arguments, selected the best and passed them on to Dr Burwood, who offered his responses. The result is a lively, at times heated exchange of views.