Reviews

Minding the Gap

Dylan Skurka on a film that suggests it’s possible to choose to overcome your upbringing.
[Issue 147 :: December 2021 / January 2022]

Time of the Magicians by Wolfram Eilenberger

This issue we travel back in time in Germany, as Leonid Bilmes uses words and symbols to consider the words and symbols of four famous ‘Weimar magicians’.
[Issue 146 :: October/November 2021]

All Things are Nothing To Me by Jacob Blumenfeld

Douglas Groothuis thinks nothing of Max Stirner’s nihilism.
[Issue 146 :: October/November 2021]

‘We’re All Just Rats in Mazes’

Jarid Goodman watches rats negotiate the maze of popular culture.
[Issue 146 :: October/November 2021]

Just Deserts: Debating Free Will by Daniel C. Dennett & Gregg D. Caruso

Stuart Jeffries considers the moral implications of a (possible) lack of free will.
[Issue 145 :: August/September 2021]

Good Sport by Thomas H. Murray

Dan Ray asks why drugs cannot be a part of good sport.
[Issue 145 :: August/September 2021]

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen R. Ghodsee

Amber Edwards surveys the position of women under socialism.
[Issue 145 :: August/September 2021]

Brimstone and Treacle

Thomas R. Morgan notes a diabolical, and angelic, case of anti-realism.
[Issue 145 :: August/September 2021]

What is Philosophy For? by Mary Midgley

To philosophy… and beyond! John Shand agrees with Mary Midgley about philosophy’s purpose.
[Issue 144 :: June/July 2021]

Philosophy in a Technological World: Gods and Titans by James Tartaglia

Kieran Brayford thinks ahead.
[Issue 144 :: June/July 2021]

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