Hegel & History Hegel’s Understanding of History Jack Fox-Williams outlines the basics of how history works for Hegel. One of Hegel’s most interesting but misunderstood areas of enquiry concerns ...

Ways of Knowing Analytic versus Continental Philosophy Kile Jones explains the differences between these ways of thinking. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as ...

Question of the Month What Is The Meaning Of Life? The following answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book. Sorry if your answer doesn’t appear: we received enough to fill ...

Plato Plato: A Theory of Forms David Macintosh explains Plato’s Theory of Forms or Ideas. For the non-philosopher, Plato’s Theory of Forms can seem difficult to grasp. If we can place this theory into ...

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 ...

Films There Will Be Blood Terri Murray tells us about a Hollywood hero beyond good and evil. If Hollywood genre movies can be depended upon to deliver one thing, it is a good hero pitted against an ...

Consciousness Henri Bergson and the Perception of Time Know the name, can’t quite recall what he thought? John-Francis Phipps explains the surprising ideas of the philosopher of vitalism. Bergson’s ...

Continental Thoughts A Radical Cure: Hannah Arendt & Simone Weil on the Need for Roots Scott Remer thinks we arendt happy without a community and considers the complete reconstruction of the modern ...

Philosophy and Language Derrida On Language Peter Benson tells us what language is and isn’t according to Jacques Derrida. Early in the Twentieth Century, philosophy diverged into two camps: analytic ...

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 ...

Articles Philosophical Misanthropy Ian James Kidd takes a look at humanity through dark glasses. The condemnation of humankind is very topical these days. Given the global environmental crisis, the ...

Articles The Meaning of Death Laszlo Makay, George Marosan Jr. and David Vatai consider whether death destroys meaning or creates it. Unsurprisingly, people are obsessed with the meaning of their ...