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; ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘More songs about Buildings and Food’ was the title of a 1978 album by the rock band Talking Heads. It was about all the things rock stars normally don’t sing about. Pop songs are usually about ...

Sarah Stone draws lessons about leadership. The most acclaimed and popular films in the zombie genre seem to be moral allegories in which the zombies function as catalysts forcing the surviving humans ...

A five-minute tour of some political thinkers and ideas by Anja Steinbauer.

Tim Madigan on how Darwin influenced the Pragmatist. “Darwin… offered us a new account of ourselves. He has argued that human beings, along with the rest of nature, need to be understood as the ...

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, ...

Willow Verkerk considers what Nietzsche has to teach us about love. What could Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) have to teach us about love? More than we might suppose. Speculations about his sexuality ...

Mark Daniels introduces a whole millenium of ideas. Let us start by considering three points. First, medieval philosophy came from a period when philosophy was under attack: the proponents of ...

Pauline O’Flynn explores de Beauvoir’s argument that punishment is necessary to demonstrate that the degradation of humanity can never be ignored. Simone de Beauvoir poses a disturbing moral question ...