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Political Philosophy
Philosophers & Immigration Control
Edward Hall argues that philosophers of immigration are not thinking it through.
Political Philosophy
Trust, Truth & Political Conversations
Adrian Brockless wants a recognition of human value in political debate.
Success & Luck
Carlo Filice argues that we should share our success, even if it’s hard earned, because we often don’t deserve it as much as we’d like to think.
The Material Creation of Freedom
Stephen Martin Fritz & Denise Morel contemplate what creates democracy.
Philosophy & The Crown
Vincent Di Norcia on monarchy and stability.
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Regulars
Editorial: We Need To Talk
by Rick Lewis
News: February/March 2025
World Logic Day celebrated here and there • Most folk think they know enough to judge • Don Cupitt, Sea of Faith theologian, dies — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
Articles
Technologists & Ethicists
Stephen L. Anderson laments inadequate moral insight among tech leaders.
The Fire This Time
Tim Madigan on Ray Bradbury, Bertrand Russell and Fahrenheit 451.
Thomas Aquinas on Extraterrestrial Life
Babatunde Onabajo tells us why Aquinas did not believe in aliens.
Plants & Philosophy
Caroline Deforche sees similarities between gardening and philosophising.
Wordsworth & Darwin
Christine Avery wonders whether poetry can help us to deal with science.
Pythagoras (570-495 BCE)
Daniel Toré looks beyond the mathematician to the philosopher.
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Columns
Philosophy Shorts: Philosophers on Cars
by Matt Qvortrup
Philosophical Haiku: Jürgen Habermas (1929-)
by Terence Green
Islamic Philosophers: On Women
AmirAli Maleki considers how Islamic thought changed.
The Art of Living: On Making Moral Progress
Massimo Pigliucci tells us how to advance ethically.
Reviews
The Universal History of Us by Tim Coulson
Grant Bartley replies philosophically to a scientific history of everything.
The Necessity of Exile by Shaul Magid
Rachel R. Rosner responds to new concepts of exile.
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Sandra Woien interrogates a famous Soviet-era satire.
Falling Down
Thomas R. Morgan considers how personal identity is maintained, and how it is lost.
Fiction
Besieged
by Omar Sabbagh
