Brief Lives Etienne de la Boétie (1530-1563) Martin Jenkins looks at the life of an influential early political philosopher. Etienne de la Boétie is probably best known in the English-speaking world ...

Articles The Success & Failure of Non-Violence Yoav Tenembaum asks when a policy of non-violence is feasible. Non-violence as a policy is based on the moral postulate that the use of force is ...

Ian Ravenscroft philosophizes about philosophizing.Articles How To Be A Philosopher Ian Ravenscroft philosophizes about philosophizing. 1. What to Wear Philosophers rarely get worked up about clothing ...

The New Atheism Where’s The Evidence? Michael Antony argues that the New Atheists miss the mark. “A wise man,” wrote Hume, “proportions his belief to the evidence.” This is a formulation of ...

Philippa Foot has for decades been one of Oxford’s best-known and most original ethicists. Her groundbreaking papers won her worldwide recognition but at the dawn of the new century she has finally ...

Films The Truman Show Have you ever wondered whether everyone talks about you behind your back? Whether they are all keeping something from you? John McGuire discusses the Cartesian nightmare that is ...

Articles Bertrand Russell Stalks The Nazis Thomas Akehurst on why Russell blamed German fascism on German philosophy. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) is best known for his activities at the very ...

Articles A Gentle Introduction to Structuralism, Postmodernism And All That John Mann explains what the Continentals are up to these days. In the 1980s there was a lot of excitement about ...

Machine Morality Will Robots Need Their Own Ethics? Steve Torrance asks if robots need minds to be moral producers or moral consumers. Robots present an interesting double picture. We can see them ...

Chuang-Tzu and Empathy Interestingly enough, something very like the paradox of empathy which Ramsey McNabb identifies is mentioned in one of the classics of ancient Chinese philosophy – the ...

Articles The Power of Motherhood Regan Penaluna introduces Damaris Masham (1659-1708). Who was Damaris Masham? John Locke reports to a friend that she is a “remarkably gifted woman” who is “so much ...

Richard Rorty is perhaps the best-known living philosopher in the Pragmatic tradition, and one of the most talked-about thinkers of the present day. He is a philosophy professor at Stanford University ...