Christina Aziz asks whether metanarratives still matter, and if so, how. In reaction to the religion, tradition and romanticism of earlier eras, ‘modernism’ was the name given to the broad movement of ...

Stephen Anderson sternly judges a cause célèbre. There was a time – some years ago – when to profess disbelief in a Supreme Being could be hazardous to one’s health. You could get hacked to pieces ...

Shamanistic shyster or intellectual innovator, creative charlatan or exalted pioneer of philosophy – however one views him, Pythagoras remains the most famous name at the starting gate of Western ...

Richard Floyd explains a notorious example of Wittgenstein’s public thought. Wittgenstein is certainly a special case. He is perhaps the only philosopher who could have produced an argument for which ...

Joe Fearn asks whether the idea of out of body experiences is intelligible. I talked to Jean Gittins, a 57 year old Leeds woman who told me about the out of body experience she had during an extended ...

Phil Badger guides us through the varieties of liberalism, historical and philosophical. The big ideas of political philosophy are often hard to get clear in our minds, and there is no better example ...

Michael Faust reviews this film in the light of eternity. Is Groundhog Day one of the great philosophical movies? Viewed on the most trivial level it’s just another Hollywood rom-com, but on closer ...

Brian King says that to understand the herd, you need a Herder. One question about human nature is whether it is the same for all people at all times, or whether it is fundamentally different in ...

Mary Daly is a world-renowned Radical Feminist philosopher, theologian and author. Professor Daly, what is Radical Feminism? Well, I actually define that in my Wickedary, which is a ‘dictionary for ...

Hegel’s philosophy of history is most lucidly set out in his Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, given at the University of Berlin in 1822, 1828 and 1830. In his introduction to those ...

Peter Benson ponders the construction and deconstruction of our traditional notions about gender. According to Jacques Derrida, a distinctive feature of all language is its ‘citationality’. By this he ...

Laura Purdy considers some of the problems associated with animal organ transfer. In January 2003, U.S. scientist Randall Prather announced that he had successfully cloned a miniature pig lacking the ...