Readers are in for quite a few surprises in this issue’s reviews. A couple looking for a three-way relationship might select a guy robot as the addition, not a girl robot. That’s not what we’re expecting if we’ve seen the movie Her, watched the TV show Humans, or paid attention to the growing market for […]
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Cosmological Arguments
Elizabeth Burns considers old and contemporary thinking about cause, explanation, and God.
Pascal’s Wager
Paul Bartha weighs up a prudential argument for belief in God.
Tomorrow Never Knows
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, says Jean Kazez.
Ontological Arguments
Graham Oppy considers Anselm, Descartes, and contemporary modal moves.
The Common Consent Argument
Tiddy Smith asks, does it matter that atheists are outnumbered?
Notes from A Biscuit Tin
Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachel Wiseman launch a project that celebrates the poetic vision of Mary Midgley.
Living the Life of the Mind
I have been writing the philosophy news for this magazine for three years now. It may not have been totally obvious in my first article in the summer of 2016 that I did not have a straight up interest in simply reporting the news, despite my brief commentary on the idea of The Daily Mail […]
Good-Bad Art
John Dyck asks, does it make sense to say something is good just because it’s bad?
Intellectual Vices
Qassim Cassam takes in vice epistemology and the conduct of our politicians.
Philosophy, In a Sense
Constantine Sandis on tolerance and traditions.
Issue 86 Thoughts: introduction
Issue 86.