General Articles

What Would Make The Best Society?

The following answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book.
[Issue 73: May/June 2009]

The Dragon: Memes, Culture and Evolution

In a follow-up to last issue’s focus on Darwin, we have two articles looking at memes, supposed ‘units of cultural transmission’. First, Daria Sugorakova explores the concept of memes by pondering how the idea of dragons evolved.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009]

Beware of Truth!

Peter Benson tries to clear Jacques Derrida’s unjustly infamous name, and shows how memes spread in modern academia.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009]

Hemingway and the Hero

L.A. Rowland campaigns to instate Ernest Hemingway as a philosopher-hero.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009]

The Great Government Philosophers

George Fripley remembers four forgotten gurus of government.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009]

Contemplating Colobus

Dawn Starin reports on the state of colobus civilization in a small Gambian forest.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009]

Welcome To My Philosophy Class

Lecturer Wayne Buck has written a letter to his students explaining what philosophy is, and how to do it.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009]

Everything is a Goat

Bill Capra rebutts a cosmological argument against goatism.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009]

Paternalism and the Law

Barbara Hands considers whether it is ever right for the law to limit your freedom of choice and action, for your own good.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009]

Augustine’s Choice: The Lord of Light or the Light of the Lord?

Charles Natoli considers whether St Augustine had any better reason to convert to Christianity than remain a Manichean.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009]

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