The following answers to this question each win a signed copy of How To Be An Agnostic by Mark Vernon. Sorry if you’re not here; there were lots of entries. True beliefs portray the world as it is; ...

• Accountability: to determine culpability and ensure that retribution is fair, respectful, reasonable, and measured, taking into account traditions. To be just, a war needs to satisfy all of these ...

Articles by 'Juno Browning'. Authors Author: "Juno Browning" Moral Train-ing by Juno Browning [Issue 176: October/November 2026: Cartoon] Just Desserts by Juno Browning [Issue 175: August/September ...

Metaphysics The Nature of Reality Simon Everson says Immanuel Kant can help with quantum mechanics. Could it be that the ideas of Immanuel Kant offer an insight into one of the la ...

Articles Fraudulent Hope? Alice Figes agrees with Ernst Bloch that hope can build worlds or destroy them, and philosophy’s task is to tell the difference. Writing in the 1930s, ...

A related complaint is that when we try to imagine nothing, we end up imagining empty space. So – the thought goes – in asking why there’s something rather than nothing we’re really asking why space ...

Metaphysics Classical Indian & Modern Scientific Metaphysics Mansi Tripathi hosts a trialogue. One thing is common to all systems of thought, wherever and whenever they arise. The ...

The saving of hope from this dismissal will fall on the shoulders of Gabriel Marcel and Ernst Bloch, through whose works a more potent hope, rather different perhaps from the common understanding of ...

A History Peter Keeble causes us to think about causation. There are many areas that might be used to trace the course of Western philosophy. Physical causa ...

Some say that one of the main differences between science and philosophy is that science makes progress while philosophers go round in circles endlessly discussing the same questions. Toni Vogel Carey ...

Richard Joyce on what happens when falsehoods are too useful to throw out. The history of moral philosophy can seem a disappointing spectacle. Large tracts of it can be interpreted as thinkers taking ...

Noson Yanofsky tells us how to deal with contradictions and the limitations of reason that arise from them. We all have conflicting desires. We want to get promoted, but don’t want to work too hard.