Archive
Fiction and Poetry
Buridan’s Ass: A Paradox Redux 
Adebowale Oriku with a warning about indecision.
Immanuel
Kaz Knowlden tells a fishy tale of innocence shattered.
Miranda and the Over-Dragon
Nolan Whyte with his second fable about the philosophical adventuress.
Double Bubble
Alistair Fruish deals you the straight dope.
Language Tinder
by Ivan Brady
The Philosopher’s Death
A short story by Stafford Betty. (Warning – not for those of a nervous disposition!)
Somewhere in Leo
John Lanigan fantasises at the cutting edge of philosophical cosmology.
Bill’s Philosophy Songs
Bill Welton rewrites some familiar songs to give them philosophy appeal – including some carols for Christmas.
Making Up My Mind
Martin Lunghi gets into some strange tendencies with language.
Out Of The Blue
Kaisley Phillips tells a colourful story from Chicago in the summer of 1960.
Philosophy 1000
Jeremy Gorman recites a learning experience from the history of philosophy.
Cleft Stick
Adebowale Oriku tells a story about a man who finds it difficult to tell a story.
The Placebo Effect
A short story by Emrys Westacott about drugs, money and bioethics.
Miranda and the Meaning of Life
An existentialist fairy tale by Nolan Whyte.
Understanding Sartre
A short-but-disturbing story by Mark Richardson.
The Philosopher’s Cellphone
by Mark Silcox
A Yorkshire Wittgenstein
If Ludwig Wittgenstein had come from Yorkshire, what might his Tractatus have been like? Dr G.E.B. Smith imagines.
The Book of Love
A short story about love by Alistair Fruish.
A Bale of Woe
The name of the medieval logician Jean Buridan (c.1295-1358) is forever linked to a curious problem in decision-making. Peter Cave recounts his own sad but instructive meeting with Buridan’s Ass.
Climate of Conflict
by Handsen Chikowore
A Driver’s Philosophy
by Chengde Chen
Ethics, Logic & Hockey: A Dialogue
What happened when the game’s authorities got serious about cleaning up hockey? Ryan Baker on philosophy in action.
Philosopher or Poettess?
by Sylvia Plate
I Am Dan’s Brain
Memoires of a much-travelled mind, as revealed to Terry Dartnall.
The Meaning of Life
A gripping tale of philosophy, literature and romance by Philip Bellamy.
Sexual Healing
Another instructive and improving tale by the risque but virtuous Peter Cave.
Gravity
A short story by Mairi Wilson.
On Real and Artificial Flowers
by Chengde Chen
The Contributions of Jeopardy! to Western Philosophy
Ronald Lindsay on a novel, if slightly desperate, way of funding philosophical research.
Planck’s Angels
by Kane S. Latranz
Affairs of Heart & Affairs of State
Philosophers have a problem with truth; but what about truth-telling? Peter Cave publishes some correspondence, recently re-discovered, concerning a long-forgotten political scandal. For the sake of brevity, incidental material in the letters has been excluded. Now, how do you tell people that you are telling them the truth?
Descartes Was Right!
A short story by Katherine Power.
Of Men and Mice
by Roger Caldwell
Herm & Matozoon
Peter Cave eavesdrops on a dialogue between a couple of the billions of little non-persons in Soho, London.
“I have a philosophical secret!”
The lowest-rated Jerry Springer show ever.
The Only Ones
A short story by Alistair Fruish.
Humanity
A short story by Danny Kodicek.
Parenthetic Doubt: A Newly Discovered Fragment of an Early Work by Descartes
by Andrew Belsey