Forums Archive

Currently Featuring:

Marxism Reconsidered

• The Moral Case for Marxism: an interview with Gerry Cohen
• The True Idealist: an interview with James Daly
• The German Ideology Revisited
• A Marxian Polemic
• Marx for Beginners

Consciousness Explained?

• Can Computers Ever Be Conscious?
• Demystifying Consciousness: an interview with Ned Block
• Philosophy of Mind: the next stage
• Logic and Consciousness
• Ryle's Concept of Mind
• Consciousness: a panpsychists view

Philosophy, Psychiatry and Counselling

• Everybody's Philosophical Counselling
• What Do Philosophical Practitioners Do?
• Pax Nabisco: on the future of philosophical counselling
• Philosophical Counselling: the case against
• The Philosopher as Personal Consultant
• The Rise of Philosophy of Psychiatry

Challenges of Science

• Claiming Darwin for the Left: An Interview with Peter Singer
• Science Wars: an interview with Alan Sokal
• How the Laws of Physics Still Lie: an interview with Nancy Cartwright
• A Change of Mind: an interview with Ted Honderich

World Congress of Philosophy

• Free to do Evil: an interview with Richard Swinburne
• Philosophy Cultivating Humanity: an interview with Martha Nussbaum
• The World Congress of Philosophy
• The Meaning of Democracy in Africa Today: an interview with Emmanuel Eze
• A Fine Sense of Mischief: An interview with Arthur Fine
• Mao, Marx and Modern China: an interview with Ouyang Kang
• Mind Body Problems Part 2: an interview with Jaegwon Kim
• Living Legends
• The Empiricist Strikes Back: an interview with Michael Ayers
• Mind Body Problems Part 2: an interview with Sydney Shoemaker

Freewill and Determinism

• Genes and Determinism: an interview with Richard Dawkins
• More Elbow Room: an interview with Daniel Dennett
• The Dogs of Determinism
• Freedom is Necessity
• Que será, será: an interview with Ted Honderich
• Mapping the Free Will Debate
• Freedom and Control
• Determinism and Punishment: An interview with Ted Honderich

Women Thinkers

• A Tradition of Misogyny
• Birth, Death and Metaphysics
• Is Philosophy Gender-Neutral: a debate
• Midgley on Murdoch
• Fifty Years of the Second Sex
• There's Something About Mary: an interview with Mary Warnock
• Why Women?

Realism and Anti-Realism

• The Last Word: an interview with E. O. Wilson
• Don't Be Afraid of Anti-Realism: an interview with Jonathan Reé
• The New Realism: an interview with Roy Bhaskar
• Real Basics: an introduction to the realism, anti-realism forum
• Realists - Grow Up: an interview with Richard Rorty
• Painting the Bigger Picture: an interview with John Searle

The State of Ideology

• Seeing Both Sides: an interview with Stuart Hampshire
• Liberty and the State: a debate
• Left and Right, Right and Wrong: a roundtable discussion
• Theory and Practice: forum introduction

Philosophy of Religion

• The God Experiment: an interview with Russell Stannard
• Man Made Gods: an interview with Don Cupitt
• Warrant and Belief: an interview with Alvin Plantinga
• Flying in the Face of Reason
• Islam and Philosophy
• Religion and Reason: forum introduction
• The Puzzle of Peter: an interview with Peter Vardy

Philosophy and Sex

• Genes and Sex: an interview with Helena Cronin
• Philosophy and Sex: forum introduction
• Pornography and Free Speech
• Philosophy and Sex: an interview with Martha Nussbaum
• Censorship and Public Reason
• Genes and Gays
• Sartre on Love, Sex and Desire

The Self and Identity

• All In The Mind?
• I, Animal
• The Systematic Elusiveness of the I
• In Search of the Self
• Taylor-Made Selves: an interview with Charles Taylor
• There's a Thought
• Sameness, Substance and the Human Animal: an interview with David Wiggins

Bioethics

• Bioethics, Darwin and Clear Thinking: An Interview with Janet Radcliffe Richards
• Bioethics By Committee: An Interview with John Harris
• Ethics on the Brain
• The 'Gene-For' Confusion
• The Status of Zygotes
• Bioethics and Society: Forum Introduction
• J'Accuse Peter Singer
• The Many Faces of Autonomy

The Dark Side of Philosophy

• Butterflies and Wheels
• Heidegger and the Nazis
• Human, All Too Human
• Heat on Ray: an interview with Ray Monk
• Philosophy's Dark Side: forum introduction
• The PC Tyranny
• Sartre and Camus: friends no more
• Swords From Ploughshares

Language and Meaning

• Simon Says: an interview with Simon Blackburn
• Cracking the Language Code
• Easier Said Done: an interview with Michael Dummett
• Let's Talk: an introduction to the language and meaning Forum
• Literally Nonsense
• Putnam's Progress: an interview with Hilary Putnam
• The Name Game

Existentialism

• Being for Others
• The Ethics of Aesthetics
• An Introduction to the Forum on Existentialism
• Gendering the Subject
• The Problem of the Unconscious
• Too Serious Sartre?
• What is Existentialism?

After September 11

• Philosophy After September 11: forum introduction
• Fighting a Just War
• Patriotism Revisited
• Must There Be Progress?
• Where Do We Go From Here? a roundtable discussion
• Soldiers or Policemen?
• Terrorism and Politics

British Philosophy

• UK OK? Forum Introduction
• The British Difference
• British Philosophy: The New Vanguard
• The Editor's Tale
• Scotland Matters
• US and Them
• Ten Landmarks of British Philosophy

Art and Value

• On Borders
• Who's the Greatest?
• Where Art Thou: an introduction to the art and value Forum
• Art's Elite: An interview with Roger Scruton
• Art and Allusion
• Wilde and Free
• The Beautiful Society

After Postmodernism

• The End of History
• Postmodernism R.I.P.
• Whatever Next?
• Identity and Power
• Defending Derrida
• Spectacular Violence
• A New Culture of Difference

Four Birthday Interviews

• Davidson, Me, You and It: an interview with Donald Davidson
• The Natural: an interview with Philippa Foot
• Interviews Are Us: introduction to the fifth anniversary issue forum
• Learning to Trust: an interview with Onora O'Neill
• Beating the Systems: an interview with Bernard Williams

John Rawls Remembered

• The House that Jack Built
• Rawls in Europe
• John Rawls - The VIP
• The Quiet American
• Rawls Remembered
• Facing His Critics
• The Book that Changed Everything.

Humans and Animals

• An Animal Apart? Kenan Malik interviewed
• Degrees of Animal Concern
• What's in a Name?
• Novel Thinking
• A Different Difference
• Animals on the Brain
• The Ethics of Pain

Children and Philosophy

• Can Children Philosophise? The case in favour
• Thinkers or Doers?
• The Old School
• Beyond Good and Evil: an interview with Philip Pullman
• Kid's Law
• When I Grow up…
• When I Grow up… The answers

The Multicultural Society

• Multiculturalism and the Identity Trap
• Being British
• The Widening Gyre
• Creating Citizens
• Inside Out
• Lord of Plurality: an interview with Bhikhu Parekh
• Saying the Unsayable: an interview with Slavoj Žižek

Reason and Rationality

• Coherence & Co.
• Rational Irrationality
• Hazards of Irrationality
• A Man for All Reasons: an interview with Anthony Grayling
• Must We Argue?
• Wants Found Wanting
• Sloppy Thinking Exposed

Thinking about Death

• Numbers Up: death survey results
• Looking For Trouble
• They Died With Their Heads On
• Death Becomes it
• When are You Dead?
• The Discomfort of Strangeness
• RIP? Not Me!

Artificial Intelligence

• The Mind Maker: an interview with Igor Aleksander
• Why Minds Are Not Computers
• Information Inspiration
• A Short Visit to the Chinese Room
• Minds, Brains and Gases
• Now For the Tricky Bit...
• Damasio's Error

The Meaning of Love

• Being in Sync
• The Soho Symposium
• Love's Complications
• Unfit to Wed?
• What a Union!
• Real Love
• The Morality of Love

The Intractables

• Head Hurters
• Further Watching
• Eastern Eye
• Dennett’s Dangerous Ideas
• Whose Morality is it Anyway?
• So What’s the Big Problem?
• Tracking the Intractables

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

• Immerse Yourself
• Go Your Own Way
• Humility
• Shaking Shibboleths

Social Justice

• The Thinking Man's Tory: An interview with Oliver Letwin
• Go Rousseau!
• Just Association
• Rethinking Equality

Pop Philosophy

• Coy Story
• The Magic of Disney
• Figures of Fun

Law, Liberty and Terror

• No More Outlaws
• On Torture and Regicide: An interview with Ted Honderich
• Fear and Fantasy
• The Price of Security: a roundtable
• The Warm Courage of National Unity

Happiness

• The Happy Warrior

On Poverty

• Who is Responsible?

The Making of Minds

• Three Scenes and a Moral
• Finding the Music Again
• Opening the Big Tent

Return to the Archive