General Articles

Is a Philosophical Ethics Possible?

Richard Taylor explains how ethical reasoning is like travelling up an escalator, and describes the difficulties of choosing between competing systems of ethics.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003]

Memoir of a Jolly Junket in Search of Bishop Butler

Joseph Butler was an 18th century clergyman who left an indelible mark on moral philosophy but isn’t as widely remembered today as he deserves. David White scoured England and Ireland for traces of the man they called The Bishop.
[Issue 38: October/November 2002]

Problems of Affluence in Morality

Do we have a duty to give to charity? Kevin Smith weighs up the possible responses to an ethical dilemma we’ve all faced at one time or another.
[Issue 38: October/November 2002]

From Hume to Tillich: Teaching Faith & Benevolence

Nancy Bunge was taught philosophy by two of the 20th century’s greatest thinkers, Willard Quine and Paul Tillich. She remembers the profound effect of Tillich’s ideas.
[Issue 38: October/November 2002]

‘The Open Society’ Revisited

Alan Haworth on Karl Popper, his vision of a pragmatic, liberal society, and his assessment of its philosophical enemies.
[Issue 38: October/November 2002]

The Atheist & the Foxhole

Catriona Hanley asks: Is God still dead?
[Issue 37: August/September 2002]

The Nature of Religious Belief

Chris Bloor replies to ‘Cutting God in Half’ by Nicholas Maxwell.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002]

Rehabilitating the Ad Hominem Argument

Should Bertrand Russell’s ‘skirt chasing’ be taken into account when thinking about his moral theories? Stephen Anderson argues that it might, in this reply to Tim Madigan’s criticism of ad hominem arguments.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002]

Jacques Derrida

by Matt Williams
[Issue 37: August/September 2002]

The Dialectics of Faith & Enlightenment

Hegel has been enormously influential, but is notoriously difficult to read. In this new section, Peter Benson guides us through a series of typical Hegelian moves from the ‘Phenomenology of Spirit.’.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002]

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