Themed Articles

Philosophy in the Workplace

Mark Addis takes philosophy to work on a building site.
[Issue 95: March/April 2013]

The Acceptable Face of Philosophy

David Archard asks what compromises philosophers should be prepared to make in order that their ideas will be listened to.
[Issue 95: March/April 2013]

Simworld

Sam Woolfe gives us a brief history of the idea that reality is unreal.
[Issue 95: March/April 2013]

Kant at the Bar: Transcendental Idealism in Daily Life

Patrick Cannon uses a popular setting to explain Kant’s metaphysics.
[Issue 95: March/April 2013]

The Ontology of Photography: From Analogue To Digital

Peter Benson on why digital photos aren’t reliable records of anything.
[Issue 95: March/April 2013]

The Art of World-Making

Mikhail Epstein sees a bright future for metaphysics in the hi-tech age.
[Issue 95: March/April 2013]

Reading Jane Austen as a Moral Philosopher

Thomas Rodham keenly observes Jane Austen’s exacting ethical expertise.
[Issue 94: January/February 2013]

Democracy & Tragedy

Mark Chou argues that the performance of tragedies helped establish democracy.
[Issue 94: January/February 2013]

“Nobody Said Anything”

Meghan Bidwell ponders language and silence in the short stories of Raymond Carver and Ernest Hemingway.
[Issue 94: January/February 2013]

The Twin Souls of Oscar Wilde and Friedrich Nietzsche

Yahia Lababidi meditates on the aesthetics and ethics of two great contrarians.
[Issue 94: January/February 2013]

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