Articles The Success & Failure of Non-Violence Yoav Tenembaum asks when a policy of non-violence is feasible. Non-violence as a policy is based on the moral postulate that the use of force is ...

Wittgenstein Tractatus 7.1: Translation and Silence Peter Caws considers how much is lost in translation. There’s a story about an American evangelist who was challenged about something in his ...

Plato Plato’s Just State Chris Wright ponders Plato’s masterplan. One of the purposes of Plato’s Republic is to put forth a conception of the ‘just state’. Plato describes how such a state would be ...

Philosophical Science Chaos & An Unpredictable Tomorrow Peter Saltzstein finds that Chaos Theory yields unexpected philosophical results. The future is not what it used to be. I mean, an intriguing ...

Articles Why You Shouldn’t Be A Person Of Principle Ramsey McNabb introduces moral particularism. Usually, when someone is called a ‘person of principle’ it is meant as a compliment. For the most part ...

Articles The Last Messiah The first English version of a classic essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, originally published in Janus #9, 1933. Translated from the Norwegian by Gisle R. Tangenes. One night in ...

The New Atheism Where’s The Evidence? Michael Antony argues that the New Atheists miss the mark. “A wise man,” wrote Hume, “proportions his belief to the evidence.” This is a formulation of ...

Problems of Belief & Unbelief Huxley’s Agnosticism Van Harvey reflects on Huxley’s and Clifford’s reasons for not believing. In the struggle against obscurantism and the appeal to blind faith that was ...

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Zombies & Philosophy The Zombie Threat to a Science of Mind Philip Goff discusses a thought-experiment about consciousness. For the last five hundred years or so physics has been doing extraordinarily ...

Philosophy in Russia Tolstoy’s Theory of Nonviolence Academician Abdusalam A. Guseinov on pacificism and the perspective of the infinite beginning. The idea of nonviolence entered into the cycle of ...

Articles Marshall McLuhan on the Mobile Phone Peter Benson sees a prophet’s message come to fulfilment through net and cell. “Is it not absurd for men to live involuntarily altered in their inmost ...