Overview What’s New in… Chinese Philosophy Anja Steinbauer on modern developments in an ancient philosophical tradition.. Many thinkers of our time believe that ‘globalisation’, “the process whereby ...

Hegel’s Classification of History. In his Introduction to Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1837), Hegel argues that there are three ways of doing history.. The first of these is original ...

It is clearly internet shopping, franchised fast food and surgically-enhanced boobs. No, this is not true. I think the only answer is to strip back every layer of the physical world, every learnt ...

Logic A Logical Vacation Julia Nefsky on the curiously strong connections between logic and humour.. What would you say if I asked you to describe humour? What type of ‘thing’ is it? Perhaps you’d say ...

Articles Kant and the Thing in Itself Ralph Blumenau on why things may not be what they seem to be.. Before Kant, philosophers had divided propositions into two kinds, under the technical names of ...

Articles The Decline & Rebirth of Philosophy Daniel Kaufman sees philosophy ailing as a guide for Western culture, and considers how it might be revived.. Among the humanities, philosophy is ...

Sam Woolfe asks if pessimism is a proper response to life or a symptom of depression. If you have a pessimistic philosophical outlook on the world then it makes sense that you would also feel ...

Articles Hegel on History Lawrence Evans rationally interprets Hegel’s rational interpretation of history.. We are often taught that history is nothing but the record of past events. Yet Georg Wilhelm ...

Articles The Last Messiah 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 ...

Alan Kirby says postmodernism is dead and buried. In its place comes a new paradigm of authority and knowledge formed under the pressure of new technologies and contemporary social forces. I have in ...

Human Enhancement Moral Enhancement Julian Savulescu and Ingmar Persson argue that artificial moral enhancement is now essential if humanity is to avoid catastrophe.. For the vast majority of our ...

Articles Why False Beliefs Are Not Always Bad Sally Latham argues that sometimes it’s better to be wrong.. It is a fairly common assumption that factually correct beliefs are to be strived for and ...