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the bi-monthly magazine for everyone interested in ideas. Published since 1991, it was the winner of the 2016 Bertrand Russell Society Award. Please look around! You can read four articles free per month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy articles on this site

Irish Philosophy

Thomas Duddy & Irish Philosophy

Thomas Duddy & Irish Philosophy

Tim Madigan travels through time to seek the essential nature of Irish thought.

Irish Philosophy & Me

Irish Philosophy & Me

Catherine Barry charts her journey through historical Irish thought.

Edmund Burke & the Politics of Reform

Edmund Burke & the Politics of Reform

Jon Langford outlines conservative insights gained from revolutionary failures.

Philip Pettit & The Birth of Ethics

Philip Pettit & The Birth of Ethics

Peter Stone thinks about a thought experiment about how ethics evolved.

Regulars

Land of Saints & Scholars
News: February/March 2024

News: February/March 2024

News reports by Anja Steinbauer

Articles

How to Have a Good Life

How to Have a Good Life

Meena Danishmal asks if Seneca’s account of the good life is really practical.

A Philosophical History of Transhumanism

A Philosophical History of Transhumanism

John Kennedy Philip goes deep into the search for (post-) human heights.

Hume’s Problem of Induction

Hume’s Problem of Induction

Patrick Brissey exposes a major unprovable assumption at the core of science.

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

Hilarius Bogbinder looks at a man who wanted to make Peace from Warre.

Towards Love

Towards Love

George Mason on love as shared identity.

The Philosophy of Work

The Philosophy of Work

Alessandro Colarossi has insights for the bored and understimulated.

Columns

The Discipline of Assent

The Art of Living: The Discipline of Assent

Massimo Pigliucci tells us to stop impulsively judging.

Cogito, Ergo Sum?

Tallis in Wonderland: Cogito, Ergo Sum?

Raymond Tallis has a long-postponed meeting with M. Descartes.

Reviews

The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton

The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton

Leonid Bilmes considers the problems we face if we assume our theories match reality.

Sad Love by Carrie Jenkins

Sad Love by Carrie Jenkins

Stephen Anderson is sad about modern writings on love.

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Shashwat Mishra introduces Ayn Rand’s massive novel promoting self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism.

Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode

Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode

Thomas R. Morgan hears more than silence.

Fiction

Stand Out Of My Light

“Stand Out Of My Light”

Sophie Dibben watches Alexander the Great meet Diogenes the Cynic.

Greek Statue

Greek Statue

by Clint Inman

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