Overview What’s New in… Chinese Philosophy Anja Steinbauer on modern developments in an ancient philosophical tradition. Many thinkers of our time believe that ‘globalisation’, “the process whereby ...

Articles Could There Be A Solution To The Trolley Problem? Omid Panahi finds that finding a solution is not the problem. The Trolley Problem is a thought experiment first devised by the Oxford moral ...

Hegel & History Hegel’s Understanding of History Jack Fox-Williams outlines the basics of how history works for Hegel. One of Hegel’s most interesting but misunderstood areas of enquiry concerns ...

Ways of Knowing Analytic versus Continental Philosophy Kile Jones explains the differences between these ways of thinking. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as ...

Articles Being and Becoming Christopher Macann explains the basis of his ‘genetic’ system of phenomenology. In Raphael’s painting The School of Athens, we see an elderly Plato pointing upward and a ...

Question of the Month What Is The Meaning Of Life? The following answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book. Sorry if your answer doesn’t appear: we received enough to fill ...

Articles Atheist In A Foxhole David Rönnegard asks how a committed atheist confronted with death might find consolation. I am a secularly-minded philosopher. Faith is not a virtue I hold. In ...

Plato Plato: A Theory of Forms David Macintosh explains Plato’s Theory of Forms or Ideas. For the non-philosopher, Plato’s Theory of Forms can seem difficult to grasp. If we can place this theory into ...

Articles Kant and the Thing in Itself Ralph Blumenau on why things may not be what they seem to be. Before Kant, philosophers had divided propositions into two kinds, under the technical names of ...

Films There Will Be Blood Terri Murray tells us about a Hollywood hero beyond good and evil. If Hollywood genre movies can be depended upon to deliver one thing, it is a good hero pitted against an ...

Schopenhauer Philosophical Outlook & Mental Well-Being Sam Woolfe asks if pessimism is a proper response to life or a symptom of depression. If you have a pessimistic philosophical outlook on the ...

Articles Does Western Philosophy Have Egyptian Roots? Peter Flegel highlights possible connections between early Greek philosophy and the ideas of the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt. Just over a year ...