Siobhan Lyons tries not to use either to explain what and why they are. As a schoolgirl in a Catholic Primary School, I often had to attend church. In W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage, the ...

Patrick Testa on the extraordinary hope offered by Viktor Frankl. Psychiatric illnesses are on the rise around the world, weighing heavily on health systems already presenting barriers to access.

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Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago, and founder and Director of Chicago’s Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values. Angela Tan chatted with him ...

It started when I was a teenager, reading people like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus – all the usual existentialist types. I decided to study philosophy at the University of Essex, but not ...

Raymond Tallis on the true mystery of memory. Regular readers of this column will know that despite my background in neuroscience, I am not persuaded that brain activity is a sufficient explanation of ...

Shawn Thompson follows legal efforts in the U.S. and Argentina to win rights for apes, exploring arguments about morality and autonomy along the way. Don’t worry. It may not be the beginning of the ...

Michael Williams on death and detachment. In her article, ‘Is Grief Self-Regarding?’ (Philosophy Now, Issue 17) Christiane Pohl argues that the grief process is selfregarding and that, provided it is ...

Patricia Railing explains the philosophical ideas behind some of abstract art’s most famous abstractions. There has been much philosophical speculation on the relationship between artistic materials ...

Mark Peacock reports on a massive public row involving philosophy, history, language and genetic engineering. Intellectual opinion plays a remarkably important role in German political debates, ...

Richard Lawson shows how Karl Popper can help settle the climate debate. Policymakers worldwide face a major headache relating to energy strategy. On the one hand, most climate scientists are warning ...

Not as much as some people think, says Phil Badger. What is being referred to when we speak of ‘The Enlightenment’ is not always easy to pin down, but in broad terms, it can be considered as an ...