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 ...

Science & Morality Science & Philosophy: A Beautiful Friendship Amy Cools reminds us why science needs philosophy. There’s been some very public dig-taking between the science and philosophy camps ...

Articles Beauty & Science Marilyn Kane wonders what scientists mean when they say nature is beautiful. The advancement of scientific knowledge doesn’t result from any single research method, but is ...

Articles Why False Beliefs Are Not Always Bad Sally Latham argues that sometimes it’s better to be wrong. It is a fairly common assumption that factually correct beliefs are to be strived for and ...

Articles 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 ...

Charles Darwin Social Spencerism Tim Delaney relates how Herbert Spencer, inventor of the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’, originally applied evolutionary thinking to human society and culture. I ...

Continental Thoughts A Radical Cure: Hannah Arendt & Simone Weil on the Need for Roots Scott Remer thinks we arendt happy without a community and considers the complete reconstruction of the modern ...

Articles How I Solved Hume’s Problem and Why Nobody Will Believe Me Eugene Earnshaw saves Western philosophy. It was a few years ago that I solved the biggest problem in philosophy. I was teaching ...

Articles E.O. Wilson on the Foundations of Ethics Can gene-culture evolution, rather than philosophy, answer our deepest ethical questions? Torin Alter on moral values and the appliance of science.

Radical Theories of Consciousness Does Consciousness Cause Quantum Collapse? Kelvin McQueen asks whether minds could directly influence physical reality. It is widely acknowledged that there is a ...

Interview Slavoj Žižek In a London café, Anja Steinbauer chats with the philosopher who invented the word ‘idiosyncratic’. So Professor Žižek – Don’t call me professor if you don’t want me to kill you ...

Articles The Last Messiah The first English version of a classic essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, originally published in Janus #9, 1933. Translated from the Norwegian by Gisle R. Tangenes. One night in ...