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Articles
Bertrand Russell & Common Sense for Savages
Stephen Leach considers what Bertrand Russell thought about common sense & reality – and how the one does not necessarily show you the other.
Political Philosophy
Should a Liberal State Ban the Burqa?
Brandon Robshaw wonders what the attitude of liberal states should be towards face coverings for women.
The Ethics of Discrimination
Frederik Kaufman asks what is and is not discrimination.
Protecting Academic Freedom
Dieter Schönecker makes five arguments for freedom of expression.
Dewey & Climate Denial2
Wendy Lynne Lee says consumerism really is the end of the world.
Regulars
Editorial: Into the Cauldron!
by Rick Lewis
News: December 2019 / January 2020
This month’s prizes! • News from the dawn of time • Google to be renamed ‘Skynet’? — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
Articles
Who Is The Worst Philosopher?
Each answer below receives a book. Apologies to the entrants not included.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Brad Rappaport writes an essay on the inventor of the essay.
🤔 Emojivism 😀
Sally Latham introduces a moral theory for millennials.
Bertrand Russell & Common Sense for Savages
Stephen Leach considers what Bertrand Russell thought about common sense & reality – and how the one does not necessarily show you the other.
The Astrobiological Cat
Predrag Slijepcevic questions standard views of intelligence by thinking on an evolutionary scale.
Lies, Damn Lies & Santa Claus
Joe Biehl argues that we have excellent reasons to believe in Santa.
Columns
Philosophical Haiku: Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
by Terence Green
Philosophy Then: Would Machiavelli Vote For Donald Trump?
Peter Adamson reads a modern Renaissance political manual.
Reviews
Galileo’s Error by Philip Goff
Raymond Tallis questions an argument for panpsychism.
Consciousness Matters by Oliver Leech
Nick Everitt wonders why consciousess matters.
Am I Dreaming? by James Kingsland
Danny Forde explores altered states.
The Twilight Zone
Alex Hooke meets Nietzsche and Sartre… in The Twilight Zone.
Fiction
Proverbs for Engraving onto Imperial Monuments
by Daniel Galef
