Timothy Sprigge re-examines the reputation for the neglected philosopher Josiah Royce.
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Reading Parfit: a review
Twelve years after its first publication, a major anthology was published on Derek Parfit’s “Reasons and Persons”. Julian Baggini asks if it was worth the wait.
Relativism and the Philosophy of Religious Education
The arguments over how religion is taught in schools are often thought of as a battle between the completing claims of different religions, atheists and agnostics. However, what we’ve ended up with in Britain, according to Robert Ellis, is in fact not a compromise, but an implicit relativism, which teaches children there is no right or wrong in matters of religion. In order to progress, we need to understand the philosophical problems which lie at the heart of the matter.
Hello Dolly, Goodbye Death?
Robin Harwood asks whether cloning is a step towards immortality.
The German Ideology Revisited
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.