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Metaethics

The Cognitive Gap

The Cognitive Gap

Justin Bartlett explores a basic distinction between understandings of ethics.

Who’s To Say?

Who’s To Say?

Michael-John Turp asks if anyone has the authority to establish moral truth.

Right & Wrong About Right & Wrong

Right & Wrong About Right & Wrong

Paul Stearns argues against moral relativism and moral presentism.

Ethical Truth in Light of Quantum Mechanics

Ethical Truth in Light of Quantum Mechanics

Myles King contends that physics helps us understand ethics.

Regulars

Let’s Get Meta!
News: June/July 2023

News: June/July 2023

Big Brother learns to read your mind • Philosophy teachers resolve to associate • Scottish ethicists back euthanasia bill — News reports by Anja Steinbauer

Articles

Back to the Sophists

Back to the Sophists

Nana Ariel corrects the record and the modern application of Sophistry.

Will the Real John Locke Please Step Forward?

Will the Real John Locke Please Step Forward?

Hilarius Bogbinder shows how Locke’s intellectual identity changed over time.

On Being One With Nature

On Being One With Nature

Niki Young tells us how we (humans) can look at our relationship with Nature in a way that neither alienates us from it nor indistinguishably absorbs us into it.

Nima Adlerblum (1881-1974)

Nima Adlerblum (1881-1974)

Brad Rappaport looks at the life of a Jewish philosopher combatting the secular forces of modernism.

Columns

The Six Core Virtues

The Art of Living: The Six Core Virtues

Massimo Pigliucci finds six ethical ideals shared by all cultures.

Remembering Memory

Tallis in Wonderland: Remembering Memory

Raymond Tallis examines a miracle of mentality.

Reviews

Debating the A Priori by Paul Boghossian & Timothy Williamson

Debating the A Priori by Paul Boghossian & Timothy Williamson

Teresa Britton debates with debates about reasoning.

Free Will: An Opinionated Guide by Alfred R. Mele

Free Will: An Opinionated Guide by Alfred R. Mele

Nikoo Aalabaf freely studies various ideas of free will.

When Animals Dream by David M. Pena-Guzman

When Animals Dream by David M. Pena-Guzman

Nick Everitt is skeptical about animals dreaming.

The Horror Anomaly

The Horror Anomaly

Daniel Tore contemplates the ethics of finding pleasure in displeasure.

Fiction

Consequentialism at the Pearly Gates
Bygone Days Yet To Come

Bygone Days Yet To Come

Tim Wilkinson reports from the philosophical past, present, and future.

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