Alejandra Mancilla uses an example from Robert Nozick to question the claims to ownership made by breeders of genetically modified organisms. John Locke’s justification of property rights started with ...

It was September of 1998, and I was a dewy-eyed sophomore who had bluffed his way into Richard Rorty’s seminar on William James and Friedrich Nietzsche. I had taken philosophy courses before, but ...

Philosophy in Britain is an organisation devoted to the dissemination of information about philosophy in Britain. Our aim is a long-term one : we hope that in 10 years time the average Briton will ...

One familiar definition of a metaphor is that it is essentially a figure of speech which uses one thing to mean another by ...

Phil Badger explores controversial issues at the heart of liberalism. Last year Steven Freeman was sentenced to an ‘indeterminate’ time in prison for making and distributing indecent drawings of ...

John Greenbank searches history for answers to persistent questions. The history of philosophy must be understood as a series of serious intellectual and moral claims about fundamental issues. For ...

A review by Desmond Tarrant. Paul Davies was Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He left there for the sunshine of Australia apparently in disgust at the apathy ...

According to M.E. Fox and A.C.F.A. d’Avalos, logic dictates that at least some moral propositions must be true. “Eating people is wrong” is an indicative moral proposition rather than an imperative ...

The following answers to this essential piece of philosophical gossip each win a signed copy of The Kingdom of Infinite Space by Raymond Tallis. In the best philosophical tradition, nobody got more ...

Tim Madigan remembers Tim Cooney (1930-1999). “My ideas evolved from long hours in local bars, talking, talking, talking, always about morality. People were always asking ‘Who do you think you are, ...

The first example Gettier comes up with has to do with Jones and Smith applying for a job. If Smith had strong evidence that Jones will get the job (for example if the boss said Jones will get the job ...

Harvard philosopher Tu Wei-ming is the most famous advocate of the Confucian tradition outside China. Anja Steinbauer talked to him in Boston. When I first came to the States to study philosophy in ...