General Articles

Why You Shouldn’t Be A Person Of Principle

Ramsey McNabb introduces moral particularism.
[Issue 60: March/April 2007]

The Trial of Socrates: The Latest

Peter Rickman drops in on the Athenian court, still convening after millennia.
[Issue 60: March/April 2007]

Bewitched

Following on from our Wittgenstein special last issue, Brandon Absher shows how Wittgenstein’s style of therapeutic philosophy can help us be more attentive in our use of language in everyday contexts.
[Issue 59: January/February 2007]

Ten Reasons Why I Love/Hate Peter Singer

Mark Coffey puts forward five reasons to love and five reasons to loathe the man who has been called “the most influential living philosopher”.
[Issue 59: January/February 2007]

Leo Strauss: Neoconservative?

Tibor R. Machan gets to grips with a perplexing thinker.
[Issue 59: January/February 2007]

What Is The Meaning Of Life?

The following answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book. Sorry if your answer doesn’t appear: we received enough to fill twelve pages…
[Issue 59: January/February 2007]

A Brilliant Masterpiece

To be or not to be brilliant? Miriam Abbott on the ontological argument for God’s existence.
[Issue 58: November/December 2006]

How Good Do We Have To Be?

With so many serious problems in the world, Jean Kazez asks whether there’s any excuse to buy ourselves new toys, or even take up more worthy pastimes like playing the violin. Her reflections take in Paul Farmer, Peter Singer, Susan Wolf and Nietzsche.
[Issue 58: November/December 2006]

The Death of Postmodernism And Beyond

Alan Kirby says postmodernism is dead and buried. In its place comes a new paradigm of authority and knowledge formed under the pressure of new technologies and contemporary social forces.
[Issue 58: November/December 2006]

How Can I Know Anything At All?

We start this new column with the question which plausibly must be answered before we can answer any other question.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006]

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