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Society & Reason

One Logic, Or Many?

One Logic, Or Many?

Owen Griffiths and A.C. Paseau try to count them.

Humans, the Believing Animals

Humans, the Believing Animals

Aristotle says humans are rational animals but Kevin Currie-Knight argues that our capacity for belief is even more fundamental.

World Wide Web or Library of Babel?

World Wide Web or Library of Babel?

Marco Nuzzaco wants us to see the net as something more than a library.

Postmodern Flames In Brazil

Postmodern Flames In Brazil

Marcos A. Raposo asks if postmodernism can survive science, and vice versa.

Regulars

Society, Reason and Knowledge
News: February/March 2023

News: February/March 2023

Hegel discovery rocks Munich • Tech advances help avoid animal testing • Final frontier for ethics — News reports by Anja Steinbauer

Articles

John Stuart Mill & Harriet Taylor Mill on Equality in Marriage & Family

John Stuart Mill & Harriet Taylor Mill on Equality in Marriage & Family

Lynn Gordon and David Louzecky compare the couple’s conjugal cogitations.

A Solution to the Trolley Problem

A Solution to the Trolley Problem

Rick Coste says the solution depends upon what we’ll realistically allow.

Virtual Dissolution

Virtual Dissolution

Maryna Lazareva says don’t be just a digital fish in the aquarium of social media.

The Theodicies of Allama Iqbal & John Hick

The Theodicies of Allama Iqbal & John Hick

Muhammad Mohsin Masood compares the evolutionary thinking of theologian John Hick and poet-philosopher Muhammad Allama Iqbal.

Evil From The Outside

Evil From The Outside

Martin Jenkins considers alternative explanations of suffering, somewhere between traditional monotheism and new atheism.

Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749)

Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749)

Andrea Reichenberger presents a fulcrum of the European Enlightenment.

Reviews

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Brian J. Collins critiques Yuval Noah Harari’s ethical and political incoherence.

The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture by Yoram Hazony

The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture by Yoram Hazony

Brad Rappaport meditates on a humanist reading of the Hebrew Bible.

Wittgenstein: Stoppard’s Muse

Wittgenstein: Stoppard’s Muse

Fergus Edwards finds Wittgenstein everywhere in Tom Stoppard’s plays, from Jumpers to Leopoldstadt.

Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering by Scott Samuelson

Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering by Scott Samuelson

Doug Phillips arms us against the slings and arrows, as he tries to find a point to pointless suffering.

Fiction

The Rime of the Ancient Geometer
The Free Will Exam

The Free Will Exam

Luke Tarassenko’s hero finds himself at a testing time.

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