Articles Ethics Made Easy: ‘Feel Good, Do The Right Thing’ Roy Turner thinks about being good. Kwame Anthony Appiah opens his Experiments In Ethics with the engaging claim that “this little book is an ...

Wittgenstein The Private Language Argument Richard Floyd explains a notorious example of Wittgenstein’s public thought. Wittgenstein is certainly a special case. He is perhaps the only philosopher who ...

Philosophy in Russia Tolstoy’s Theory of Nonviolence Academician Abdusalam A. Guseinov on pacificism and the perspective of the infinite beginning. The idea of nonviolence entered into the cycle of ...

Articles How Nietzsche Inspired Dalí Magdalena Scholle looks for Apollonian and Dionysian traits in Salvador Dalí’s art. “Even in the matter of moustaches I was going to surpass Nietzsche! Mine would ...

Articles A Gentle Introduction to Structuralism, Postmodernism And All That John Mann explains what the Continentals are up to these days. In the 1980s there was a lot of excitement about ...

The New Atheism Where’s The Evidence? Michael Antony argues that the New Atheists miss the mark. “A wise man,” wrote Hume, “proportions his belief to the evidence.” This is a formulation of ...

Films The Truman Show Have you ever wondered whether everyone talks about you behind your back? Whether they are all keeping something from you? John McGuire discusses the Cartesian nightmare that is ...

Emrys Westacott asks a probing question.Law, Tolerance and Society Does Surveillance Make Us Morally Better? Emrys Westacott asks a probing question. Imagine that right after briefing Adam about which ...

Articles Hegel on History Lawrence Evans rationally interprets Hegel’s rational interpretation of history. We are often taught that history is nothing but the record of past events. Yet Georg Wilhelm ...

Articles The Death of Postmodernism And Beyond Alan Kirby says postmodernism is dead and buried. In its place comes a new paradigm of authority and knowledge formed under the pressure of new ...

Articles Socratic Humility Glenn Rawson on humility versus arrogance in the Socratic method of philosophy. “Gentlemen of Athens, I am far from making a defence now on my own behalf, as you might think ...

Articles Bertrand Russell Stalks The Nazis Thomas Akehurst on why Russell blamed German fascism on German philosophy. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) is best known for his activities at the very ...