Is it moral to respect the wishes of the dead, above the living?

Barry Lam

Which lives matter most?

Thinking about children who are not yet born confronts us with the question of our ethical obligations to future people

Dominic Wilkinson & Keyur Doolabh

Voluntary taxation: a lesson from the Ancient Greeks

Dominic Frisby

To be happier, focus on what’s within your control

Massimo Pigliucci

How ‘The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ inspired Victorian hedonists

Roman Krznaric

Has art ended again?

Ever since Hegel, artists and critics alike have been claiming that art is finished. But what could that actually mean?

Owen Hulatt

Rules of ascent

For mountaineers, it’s not enough to get to the top – it must be done a certain way. But why is the harder way better?

Paul Sagar

Wars are not won by military genius or decisive battles

Cathal J Nolan

It is sometimes right to fight in an unjust war

Victor Tadros

Join the party of love

Love is not just a feeling given or received, it is an action too. It could be a radical force in politics

Max Harris

When philosophy needed Muslims, Jews and Christians alike

Peter Adamson

Are human rights anything more than legal conventions?

John Tasioulas

What is good rhetoric?

Plato said we ought to be suspicious of persuasive speakers and the appeal to emotions. But rhetoric can be a civic good

Tushar Irani

Hierarchy is either strictly constrained or it is indefensible

Philip Pettit

The last hollow laugh

Since Francis Fukuyama proclaimed ‘The End of History’ 25 years ago, he has been much maligned. His work now seems prophetic

Paul Sagar

Simone de Beauvoir’s political philosophy resonates today

Skye C Cleary

Infinity and beyond

Georg Cantor showed that some infinities are bigger than others. Did he assault mathematical wisdom or corroborate it?

A W Moore

Panpsychism is crazy, but it’s also most probably true

Philip Goff

Why I am not going to buy a cellphone

Philip Reed

If Aquinas is a philosopher then so are the Islamic theologians

Peter Adamson

Telling memories

Jewish émigrés from the former Soviet Union tell inconsistent stories. What does this say about the nature of memory?

Helen Haft

How a hackneyed romantic ideal is used to stigmatise polyamory

Carrie Jenkins

How playing Wittgensteinian language-games can set us free

Sandy Grant

Life-and-death thought experiments are correctly unsolvable

Julian Baggini

Chomsky, Wolfe and me

I took on Noam Chomsky’s ideas about language and unleashed a decade of debate and ridicule. But is my argument wrong?

Daniel Everett

Free speech debates are more than ‘radicals’ vs ‘liberals’

Eric Heinze

The Phineas Gage effect

When someone changes for the worse, we see a totally different person. But what happens if the change is for the better?

Kevin Tobia