The ambition for de-extinction resonates with transhumanism – a movement that champions using technology to enhance human, ...

Thus, for modern-day followers of both Rousseau and Locke, forced vaccination should be seen as ethically justified during ...

Tallis in Wonderland Revisiting the Ontological Argument Raymond Tallis contends that a definition of God cannot necessitate ...

We should all live according to Nature. No, I don’t mean that we should run naked into the forest and hug trees (though there’s nothing necessarily wrong with that). I mean that if we want to be happy ...

Norman Schultz wonders when working is wrong. [Issue 170: October/November 2025] This site uses cookies to recognize users and allow us to analyse site usage. By continuing to browse the site with ...

Ramsey McNabb introduces moral particularism. Usually, when someone is called a ‘person of principle’ it is meant as a compliment. For the most part, we take that phrase as applying to the ethical ...

Gisle Tangenes describes the life and ideas of a cheerfully pessimistic, mountain-climbing Norwegian existentialist. “This world,” mused Horace Walpole, “is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to ...

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 know of good and duty proceeds ...

The following answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book. Sorry if your answer doesn’t appear: we received enough to fill twelve pages… Why are we here? Do we serve a ...

Marina Gerner on a thought experiment about consciousness. Imagine a girl called Mary. She is a brilliant neuroscientist and a world expert on colour vision. But because she grew up entirely in a ...

Hegel’s philosophy of history is most lucidly set out in his Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, given at the University of Berlin in 1822, 1828 and 1830. In his introduction to those ...

The first English version of a classic essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, originally published in Janus #9, 1933. Translated from the Norwegian by Gisle R. Tangenes. One night in long bygone times, man ...