Structuralism arose on the continent, in particular in France, in the early 60s. The first ‘big name’ was Claude Lévi-Strauss, an anthropologist, who took on Jean-Paul Sartre, the leading French ...

Richard Joyce on what happens when falsehoods are too useful to throw out. The history of moral philosophy can seem a disappointing spectacle. Large tracts of it can be interpreted as thinkers taking ...

Jainism as a philosophical movement appeared in India before or around the same time as Daoism, Mohism (Mo Tzu) and Mencius in China: about the sixth century BC. Jainism and other Indian philosophical ...

Raymond Tallis takes us from A to Zzzzz. The column you’re reading is at least in part the result of an accident – a happy one, I hasten to add. A few weeks ago, I was sitting on a panel with the ...

Markus Gabriel one of the founders of New Realism, talks to Anja Steinbauer about why the world does not exist, and other curious metaphysical topics. I’m talking with Markus Gabriel, Professor of ...

Stephen Stewart on a forgotten golden age of philosophy. Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo in the visual arts. Bruno, Machiavelli, Erasmus and Thomas More in the world of philosophy. With names like ...

Richard Mason finds a saint to help a scientist. Steven Weinberg won the Nobel Prize in 1979 for his work in theoretical physics. He is the author of The First Three Minutes, one of the clearest ...

Michael Norwitz examines the current state of play in this long-running debate, by comparing the views of Dennett and van Inwagen. Since the ancient Greeks, one of the most provocative and ...

Terri Murray says that Jean-Paul Sartre was simply wrong about gay people and self-deception. Bad faith is Sartre’s conception of self-deception. Bad faith arises out of the human predicament – that ...

Peter Benson deconstructs the moral intrigues of Dorian Gray. “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.” Wilde added this preface when the novel was reprinted a year ...

Charles Taylor is one of the world’s leading living philosophers. Chris Bloor talks to him about philosophy and society. Charles Taylor’s intellectual journey took him from studying at McGill ...

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 ...