Qassim Cassam takes in vice epistemology and the conduct of our politicians.
political philosophy
When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice: a review
A review by Michael Huemer.
What is Fake News?
Axel Gelfert tries to make sense of our predicament.
Believing Lies
C. G. Prado argues that “facts” are now simply shared opinions.
Politics as Usual
Alan Haworth looks for a paradigm shift in politics.
Reconsidering Idealisation
The requirements of rationality.
Snapshot: Stanley Fish
Michael Robertson on a thinker whose views were deemed outrageous and ludicrous by his detractors
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: a snapshot
Jamie Ranger on the father of anarchism.
The Five Parameters: introduction
Phil Hutchinson and Rupert Read introduce a new column which hopes to shine philosophical light on politics and public policies.
It’s Not Just the Economy, Dunderheid
Alan Weir makes a case for Scottish independence.
J. S. Mill: a snapshot
Peter Holmes looks at the life and thought of nineteenth-century liberal John Stuart Mill.
A Marxian Polemic
Simon Jenkin, member of the editorial collective of the Marxist journal “Historical Materialism”, offers a personal view.