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 ...

Articles The Key Ideas of Western Philosophy John Greenbank searches history for answers to persistent questions. The history of philosophy must be understood as a series of serious intellectual and ...

Articles Herder & Human Identity Brian King says that to understand the herd, you need a Herder. One question about human nature is whether it is the same for all people at all times, or whether it is ...

Articles The Facts of Life Tim Wilkinson uses evolution to sort out his facts from his ‘mere theories’. Almost one hundred and fifty years after the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of ...

Humor The Nature of Laughing at Ourselves Mordechai Gordon takes ideas about not taking ourselves too seriously seriously. To date, philosophers have concentrated much more on trying to account for ...

Articles The Gods of Spinoza & Teilhard de Chardin Derek Harrison compares radically alternative visions of the absolute. “I saw eternity the other night. Like a great ring of pure and endless light.” ...

War & Peace Pacifism Is Not Passivism Duane Cady tells us why pacifism isn’t sitting back and letting the masters of war have their way. Pacifism rarely gets taken seriously due to a widespread ...

Question of the Month What Is The Meaning Of Life? The following answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book. Sorry if your answer doesn’t appear: we received enough to fill ...

Articles On Moral Arguments Against Recreational Drug Use Rob Lovering considers some of the arguments, and what they amount to. December 5, 2015, marked the eighty-second anniversary of the United ...

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 The Decline & Rebirth of Philosophy Daniel Kaufman sees philosophy ailing as a guide for Western culture, and considers how it might be revived. Among the humanities, philosophy is ...

Hegel’s philosophy of history is most lucidly set out in his Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, given at the University of Berlin in 1822, 1828 and 1830. In his introduction to those ...