Audren Layeux follows the doomed quest for state emancipation of the self. The contemporary world has given birth to a growing feeling of helplessness. Globalisation, once portrayed as promising a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Raymond Tallis argues intently against universal intention. The idea of a cosmic purpose is one which many of us are familiar with from religion. What happens in this world, so the story goes, is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paul Doolan tries to tell them apart. Movie director Ridley Scott is known for creating an authentic cinematic world within each of his films. The battle scenes in his newest blockbuster, Napoleon, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

AmirAli Maleki considers how Islamic thought changed. The place of women in Islam has always been controversial, especially as Islamic thinkers were always trying to describe the role of women using ...