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 ...

Problems of Belief & Unbelief Huxley’s Agnosticism Van Harvey reflects on Huxley’s and Clifford’s reasons for not believing. In the struggle against obscurantism and the appeal to blind faith that was ...

Philosophy in Russia Tolstoy’s Theory of Nonviolence Academician Abdusalam A. Guseinov on pacificism and the perspective of the infinite beginning. The idea of nonviolence entered into the cycle of ...

Articles ‘The Open Society’ Revisited Alan Haworth on Karl Popper, his vision of a pragmatic, liberal society, and his assessment of its philosophical enemies. It is now one hundred years since the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Richard Taylor Remembered One of the most colourful and engaging of modern philosophers (and of Philosophy Now contributors) is recalled by Robert Holmes, Barry Gan and Tim Madigan. I first ...

Articles Socratic Humility Glenn Rawson on humility versus arrogance in the Socratic method of philosophy. “Gentlemen of Athens, I am far from making a defence now on my own behalf, as you might think ...

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 ...

Paranoia Is War Inevitable? Jeffrey Gordon rereads a correspondence on war between Einstein and Freud. In 1932 the greatest genius of the Twentieth Century wrote an urgent letter to the century’s most ...

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 ...