Brief Lives Etienne de la Boétie (1530-1563) Martin Jenkins looks at the life of an influential early political philosopher. Etienne de la Boétie is probably best known in the English-speaking world ...

Articles The Success & Failure of Non-Violence Yoav Tenembaum asks when a policy of non-violence is feasible. Non-violence as a policy is based on the moral postulate that the use of force is ...

Articles Wilde and Morality Peter Benson deconstructs the moral intrigues of Dorian Gray. “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.” Miss Prism in The Importance 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 ...

Wittgenstein The Private Language Argument Richard Floyd explains a notorious example of Wittgenstein’s public thought. Wittgenstein is certainly a special case. He is perhaps the only philosopher who ...

Reading, Writing, Thinking The Twin Souls of Oscar Wilde and Friedrich Nietzsche Yahia Lababidi meditates on the aesthetics and ethics of two great contrarians. The externals of their lives could not ...

Free Will The New Argument About Freedom Natasha Gilbert says out with the old arguments, and in with the new. There has been a recent surge of interest in the old problem of free will. But away from ...

Wittgenstein Tractatus 7.1: Translation and Silence Peter Caws considers how much is lost in translation. There’s a story about an American evangelist who was challenged about something in his ...

Mary Daly is a world-renowned Radical Feminist philosopher, theologian and author. Professor Daly, what is Radical Feminism? Well, I actually define that in my Wickedary, which is a ‘dictionary for ...

Articles Paternalism and the Law Barbara Hands considers whether it is ever right for the law to limit your freedom of choice and action, for your own good. Fred and Bob are a gay couple who have been ...

Free Will and Determinism Oh Thou, who didst with Pitfall and with Gin Beset the Road I was to wander in, Thou will not with Predestination round Enmesh me, and impute my Fall to Sin? Rubáiyát of Omar ...

Articles Did Duchamp’s Urinal Flush Away Art? Roy Turner scorns the fact that after Duchamp, critics have questioned the status of ‘traditional’ Western art, making the act of designation the sole ...