Articles Ethics Made Easy: ‘Feel Good, Do The Right Thing’ Roy Turner thinks about being good. Kwame Anthony Appiah opens his Experiments In Ethics with the engaging claim that “this little book is an ...

Eric Walther introduces the infamous iconoclast.Nietzsche Reloaded Nietzsche, Our Contemporary Eric Walther introduces the infamous iconoclast. Friedrich Nietzsche, who was born in 1844, fell silent ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Philosophy & the Paranormal What is Materialism? Michael Philips on the shaky foundations of the most popular philosophical theory of modern times. Most academic philosophers these days will tell you, ...

Articles Nietzsche and the Problem of Suffering Van Harvey on the metaphysical aspects of an anti-metaphysical philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche shared at least one fundamental concern with the ...

Metaphysics Why Buridan’s Ass Doesn’t Starve Does free will exist? Michael Hauskeller reasons about reasons. Imagine you go to a restaurant. Looking at the menu, you discover that they serve your two ...

The Self Is The Buddhist ‘No-Self’ Doctrine Compatible With Pursuing Nirvana? Katie Javanaud asks whether there is a contradiction at the heart of Buddhism. Two of the most fundamental doctrines of ...

Articles The Multiverse Conundrum Tim Wilkinson on the physics & philosophy of parallel universes. In his 1895 essay Is Life Worth Living? the American philosopher William James wrote, “Truly, all we ...

Articles In Defense of Alain Badiou Robert Michael Ruehl describes new political possibilities. In Issue 107, Philosophy Now published James Alexander’s ‘ A Refutation of Snails by Roast Beef ’, an ...

Overview What’s New in… Aesthetics Kai Hammermeister on the beauty business. Aesthetics is the philosophical investigation of art and the theory of beauty and opposite phenomena, like the ugly, the ...