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Metaethics
Can You Be Both A Moral Rationalist
& A Moral Sentimentalist?
Andrew Kemle says that evolutionary forces give us the answer.
& A Moral Sentimentalist?
Metaethics
The Cognitive Gap
Justin Bartlett explores a basic distinction between understandings of ethics.
Who’s To Say?
Michael-John Turp asks if anyone has the authority to establish moral truth.
Right & Wrong About Right & Wrong
Paul Stearns argues against moral relativism and moral presentism.
Ethical Truth in Light of Quantum Mechanics
Myles King contends that physics helps us understand ethics.
Regulars
Editorial: Let’s Get Meta!
by Rick Lewis
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
Nana Ariel corrects the record and the modern application of Sophistry.
Will the Real John Locke Please Step Forward?
Hilarius Bogbinder shows how Locke’s intellectual identity changed over time.
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.
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Nima Adlerblum (1881-1974)
Brad Rappaport looks at the life of a Jewish philosopher combatting the secular forces of modernism.
Columns
Philosophy Shorts: Philosophers on Baths
by Matt Qvortrup
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Philosophical Haiku: Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
by Terence Green
The Art of Living: The Six Core Virtues
Massimo Pigliucci finds six ethical ideals shared by all cultures.
Tallis in Wonderland: Remembering Memory
Raymond Tallis examines a miracle of mentality.
Reviews
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
Nikoo Aalabaf freely studies various ideas of free will.
When Animals Dream by David M. Pena-Guzman
Nick Everitt is skeptical about animals dreaming.
The Horror Anomaly
Daniel Tore contemplates the ethics of finding pleasure in displeasure.
Fiction
Consequentialism at the Pearly Gates
by Daniel Galef
