Andy Owen explains what Aristotle was tolkien about. “Without friends no one would want to live, even if they had all other worldly things.” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII In my early ...

Massimo Pigliucci takes the philosophy pill. Is there a cure for life? This question may seem rather bizarre, as we don’t normally think of life as a disease. And yet, a moment’s reflection reminds us ...

Stephen Martin Fritz & Denise Morel contemplate what creates democracy. When Biden was President he warned that his political opponents were a threat to democracy itself. Similar accusations were ...

Stephen L. Anderson laments inadequate moral insight among tech leaders. For many of us the world’s first global pandemic for a century was a watershed moment. The Covid-19 crisis was plausibly ...

Dr. Gindi, sculptor, has a philosophical conversation with Richard Baron about sensation, life, infinity and, you guessed it, sculpture. Dr. Gindi is one of Switzerland’s foremost sculptors, whose ...

Raymond Tallis finds he’s an improbably accidental being. A few years ago, as I was setting out on holiday, I looked at the departure board and noticed a flight flagged up for Florence. This reminded ...

Mohsen Moghri gives a Godless but principled response to the problem of evil. We are all familiar with the problem of evil for traditional theism: a perfectly benevolent God would evidently desire the ...

Adrian Brockless wants a recognition of human value in political debate. In this article I discuss the relationship between trust and truth, their value, and our inherent need for them. In particular, ...

Edward Hall argues that philosophers of immigration are not thinking it through. Much mainstream philosophical work on migration focuses on whether or not states have a unilateral right to exclude ...

Babatunde Onabajo tells us why Aquinas did not believe in aliens. The belief that life exists outside of Earth is known as ‘cosmic pluralism’. Intriguingly, this was briefly a topic of discussion ...

Vincent Di Norcia on monarchy and stability. “Hereditary states are much less difficult to hold than new states. If such a ruler is ordinarily diligent and competent his government will always be ...

Carlo Filice argues that we should share our success, even if it’s hard earned, because we often don’t deserve it as much as we’d like to think. In thinking about slightly redistributive economic ...