General Articles

Zhuangzi, Language & Gender

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein asks what Daoist sages might have thought about PC.
[Issue 150 :: June/July 2022]

Wittgenstein Plays Snooker

Peter Mullen reproduces part of Wittgenstein’s lost work, Bemerkungen Uber Die Grundsätzlichkeit Des Snooker.
[Issue 150 :: June/July 2022]

Pylyp Orlyk (1672-1742)

Hilarius Bogbinder tells us about an innovative Ukrainian philosopher, democratic theorist and campaigner against tyranny.
[Issue 150 :: June/July 2022]

Robert Nozick’s Metaverse Machine

Lorenzo Buscicchi asks, would you plug into Mark Zuckerberg’s virtual world? He finds that the question has been considered by philosophers for decades.
[Issue 149 :: April/May 2022]

The Golden State Killer & Deleuze’s ‘Dividual’

Angela Dennis computes the use and abuse of digital data.
[Issue 149 :: April/May 2022]

The Goodness of Existence

Jarlath Cox says whether life brings pleasure or pain, the value of being born is the ability to experience at all.
[Issue 149 :: April/May 2022]

What Is Truth?

Richard Oxenberg on the need for an old paradigm, especially in ethics.
[Issue 149 :: April/May 2022]

Paradox Lost

Paul Tissier argues that Russell’s Paradox isn’t really a paradox.
[Issue 149 :: April/May 2022]

What is a Person?

Each answer below receives a book. Apologies to the entrants not included.
[Issue 149 :: April/May 2022]

Diogenes the Cynic (c.404-323 BC)

Martin Jenkins recalls what we know for sure about the philosopher in the barrel.
[Issue 149 :: April/May 2022]

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