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 ...

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 ...

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.

Sophia Gottfried meditates on the emptiness of non-existence. In philosophy there is a lot of emphasis on what exists. We call this ontology, which means, the study of being. What is less often ...

David Frost considers Nietzsche’s diet and lifestyle tips. Most of us want to do the right thing and make the right decisions. But what is the morally right thing? And what makes it morally right?

John Greenbank searches history for answers to persistent questions. The history of philosophy must be understood as a series of serious intellectual and moral claims about fundamental issues. For ...