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    Philosophy

Descartes and Derrida, Wittgenstein and Kripkenstein, Putnam’s Twin 
Earth, Russell’s paradox and Nietzsche’s Eternal Return: in concise 
reviews or longform articles, our contributors assess the latest 
thinking on reality, truth and the pursuit of the good life

  * History of philosophy
    <https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>
  * Contemporary philosophy
    <https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>

History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Not thinking but feeling

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/enlightenment-ritchie-robertson-book-review/> 


What the Enlightenment really meant, and how it undid itself

By jane o’ grady
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Pet theories

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/feline-philosophy-john-gray-book-review/> 


How we can lighten our load by learning from our cats

By ian ground
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Means to an end

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/aristotles-revenge-edward-feser-review-thomas-pink/> 


Aristotle’s metaphysics of nature

By thomas pink
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Saving Nietzsche from the Nazis

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/walter-kaufmann-stanley-corngold-review-hugo-drochon/> 


How one philosopher shaped the reputation of another

By hugo drochon
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    High minds, low politics

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/time-of-the-magicians-wolfram-eilenberger-book-review/> 


The lives of four revolutionary thinkers

By david motadel
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    A truth that works

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/sick-souls-healthy-minds-john-kaag-review-andrew-stark/> 


Making sense of the world with William James

By andrew stark
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Wired to care

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/conscience-patricia-churchland-book-review/> 


Does neurobiology really explain everything?

By raymond tallis
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Essay


    The ancients can’t help us now

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-ancients-cant-help-us-now/>

Why the consolations of Classical philosophy evaporate once we jettison 
ancient metaphysics

By carlos fraenkel
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Essay


    Not all slopes are slippery

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/not-all-slopes-are-slippery/>

How to decide which statues can remain and which need to go

By julian baggini
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Essay


    All cities are the same at dawn

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/everyday-life-in-lockdown-essay-joe-moran/> 


Everyday life in lockdown

By joe moran
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Essay


    The privilege of boredom

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/privilege-boredom-philosophy-isolation-anil-gomes/> 


How philosophy can happen in isolation

By anil gomes
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Maths rules

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/irrationality-justin-e-h-smith-review-jonathan-egid/> 


Where the dialectic takes us

By jonathan egid
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    In the inbetween

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/genuine-fakes-lydia-pyne-review-kathryn-hughes/> 


Things being made, unmade and remade

By kathryn hughes
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Scents and sensibility

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/smellosophy-a-s-barwich-review-rachel-fraser/> 


Investigating how we smell

By rachel fraser
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Gift to humanity

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/isaiah-berlin-philosophy-review-nikhil-krishnan/> 


The life-work of Isaiah Berlin, the non-philosophers’ philosopher

By nikhil krishnan
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    In the face of death

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-force-of-nonviolence-judith-butler-review-kathleen-stock/> 


Reality and hurting other people

By kathleen stock
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Essay


    God-intoxicated man

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/god-intoxicated-man-spinoza-philosophy-essay/> 


On Spinoza: the philosopher who questioned the existence of the world

By clare carlisle and yitzhak y. melamed
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Essay


    (Hospital) trolley problems

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/philosophical-responses-coronavirus-nigel-warburton/> 


Some philosophical responses to the coronavirus

By nigel warburton
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Computers don’t give a damn

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/promise-of-artificial-intelligence-brian-cantwell-smith-book-review/> 


The improbability of genuine thinking machines

By tim crane
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Essay


    Lockdown life and liberty

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/lockdown-life-liberty/>

When do emergency measures turn into dangerous government overreach?

By jonathan wolff
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Essay


    Locked at home, but feeling homeless

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/alcohol-locked-at-home-but-feeling-homeless/> 


What existential need is alcohol serving during the crisis?

By tom whyman
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Meaning in the face of death

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-world-philosophy-made-scott-soames-review-alexandre-leskanich/> 


Philosophy that struggles to see things clearly

By alexandre leskanich
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    The redness of the rose

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/galileos-error-phillip-goff-review-alex-moran/> 


Is reality permeated by mentality?

By alex moran
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Essay


    ‘A world like a Russian novel’

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-trials-of-socrates-and-jesus-essay-d-l-dusenbury/> 


The trials of Socrates and Jesus

By d. l. dusenbury
Philosophy <https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/>|Book Review


    ‘I’s before ‘E’s

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-oxford-handbook-of-4e-cognition-book-review-ian-ground/> 


A post-representationalist account of experience: 4E Cognition

By ian ground
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    The eternal foreigner

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/autobiographhy-of-solomon-maimon-melamed-sucher-review-audrey-borowski/> 


Jewish life and European thought in the eighteenth century

By audrey borowski
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Reach for the road map

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/chinese-thought-roel-sterckx-philosophy-review-bryan-van-norden/> 


Taking non-Western philosophy seriously

By bryan w. van norden
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Drawn from silence

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/paul-celan-et-martin-heidegger-book-review-hadrien-france-lanord-george-steiner/> 


*From 2004*: Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger’s evening of words

By george steiner
Philosophy <https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/>|Book Review


    The magician in love

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/george-steiner-briefe-1925-1975-hannah-arendt-martin-heidegger-book-review/> 


*From 1999*: George Steiner on the work of Hannah Arendt and Martin 
Heidegger

By george steiner
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Essay


    A better way to be a winner

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/brexit-better-way-winner/>

Why Brexiteer politicians need to stop gloating over their victories and 
start accepting their responsibilities

By julian baggini
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Essay


    Roger Scruton, 1944–2020

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/roger-scruton-1944-2020-tim-crane/>

Remembering the philosopher, who died this week

By tim crane
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Essay


    Carving up the amorphous lump

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/carving-up-the-amorphous-lump/>

How do we learn about abstract objects such as numbers? By pure thought? 
Or perhaps we can /see/ them in the world

By emmanuel ordóñez angulo
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    On the cards

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/on-the-cards/>

The daunting oeuvre of a major German philosopher

By angus nicholls
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Fodder for the grazing mind

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/fodder-for-the-grazing-mind/>

Examples of condensed thought

By lachlan mackinnon
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Why bother with philosophy?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/why-bother-philosophy/>

Alexis Papazoglou appraises some arguments in support of arguments

By alexis papazoglou
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Essay


    We the people

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/we-the-people/>

The case for changing the UK’s constitution

By les green
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Deficient democracies, democratic deficits

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/john-tasioulas-jonathan-wolff-debate-brexit-government-philosophy-tim-crane/> 


John Tasioulas and Jonathan Wolff debate our form of government and ask 
how much respect the Brexit referendum deserves

By john tasioulas and jonathan wolff
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    All the same

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/transformative-experience-theory-philosophy/> 


Theories of decision-making

By amia srinivasan
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Alone for dinner

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/alone-for-dinner/>

Kierkegaard’s sombre outlook

By m. g. piety
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    School terms

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/british-ethical-theorists-philosophy-hurka/> 


The emergence of ethics within the tradition of analytic philosophy

By crispin sartwell
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Throwing caution to the wind

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/universe-things-shaviro-realism-philosophy/> 


Delving in to the extraordinarily fertile period of philosophy

By eric schliesser
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Hard to know

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/socrates-in-love-2/>

Constructing the life of a Greek philosopher

By frisbee sheffield
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Minds matter

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/minds-matter/>

An idiosyncratic attempt to write Big Intellectual History

By jeffrey collins
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    True or false?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/true-or-false/>

A book with the potential to devastate philosophy

By rose ryan flinn
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Making a mingle mangle

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/making-a-mingle-mangle/>

A new way of telling the story of philosophy

By jonathan egid
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Essay


    Fate’s scales, quivering

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/free-will-problem/>

Jenann Ismael on why the problem of free will is not going away

By jenann ismael
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Burying the undertakers

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/raymond-tallis-reality-space-time/>

Reflections on space, time, mind and reality

By edward feser
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Getting to the essence

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/getting-to-the-essence/>

An important narrowing of a philosophical movement

By juliana de albuquerque
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Spheres and trembling

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/spheres-and-trembling/>

A popular German philosopher and his ethic of bawdy resistance

By william rees
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Not a rock but a river

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/not-a-rock-but-a-river/>

Finding God in the reality of existence

By clare carlisle
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Malevolence, insouciance

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/malevolence-insouciance/>

Some problems with modern thinking

By matthew simpson
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Rules of a diatribe

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/rules-of-a-diatribe/>

Speech acts and their accepted meaning

By rachel fraser
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Triggered

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/triggered-speak-freely/>

Learning and talking freely

By robert simpson
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Ideas of history

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/ideas-of-history/>

How to introduce the Enlightenment concisely

By johnny lyons
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Hobbes’s choice

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/hobbess-choice/>

How Thomas Hobbes approached ideas

By victoria kahn
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Tripping his brains out

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/michel-foucault-lsd-death-valley/>

Eric Bulson on Michel Foucault and LSD

By eric bulson
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Essay


    The last mortals

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-last-mortals-immortality/>

Regina Rini considers why we are especially unfortunate to die, when our 
near-descendants could be immortal

By regina rini
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Sympathy not selfishness

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/adam-smith-less-famous-achievements/>

The more interesting, less famous achievements of Adam Smith

By alexander douglas
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Rambling on

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/rambling-on/>

A great, eccentric and inaccurate guide to thinkers

By dmitri levitin
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    In pursuit of happiness

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/in-pursuit-of-happiness/>

The post-Enlightenment gap between hope and reality

By biancamaria fontana
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Led willingly by Fate

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/led-willingly-by-fate-philosophy/>

Peter Adamson considers how to combat parochialism in philosophy

By peter adamson
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Extracts


    The fantasy of free speech

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-fantasy-of-free-speech-censorship/>

Anthony Julius on the rise of censorship in the past thirty years

By anthony julius
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Storied career

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/storied-career/>

Thoughts of a philosopher of narrativity

By kieran setiya
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Theoretical BDSM

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/theoretical-bdsm/>

Ideas and institutions of two postmodern thinkers

By rebecca liu
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Words and worlds

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/words-worlds-theory/>

Heroes and villains – Kripke vs Kuhn

By joel isaac
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Self aware

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/self-aware-hume-manuscripts/>

How David Hume cultivated his image

By james harris
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    And then what?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/and-then-what-midlife/>

What happens when we ask a philosopher for advice?

By anil gomes
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Enlightened thinking?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/enlightened-thinking-atheism-god/>

Simon Blackburn considers the limits of trying to speculate about God

By simon blackburn
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Renaissance Manu

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/renaissance-manu/>

Why the philosophy of the French President matters

By henri astier
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Philosophy is dead

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/changing-subject-raymond-geuss-philosophy/> 


Jonathan Rée considers the verdict from a ‘bad boy’ of the discipline

By jonathan rée
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Reconsider the lobster

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/jordan-peterson-12-rules-kate-manne-review/> 


Kate Manne on Jordan Peterson’s failed antidote for ‘toxic masculine 
despair’

By kate manne
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Time to abandon grand ethical theories?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/ethical-thinking-baggini/>

Julian Baggini argues that morality is often merely a case of muddling 
through

By julian baggini
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Blind outrage

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/blind-outrage-das-kapital/>

David Aberbach on reading Das Kapital as a Victorian crime novel

By david aberbach
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Elementary

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/elementary-non-being/>

A theory of why some things do not exist

By tom graham
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    But is it science?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/roger-scruton-timothy-williamson-philosophy/> 


Two leading philosophers, Roger Scruton and Timothy Williamson, 
interrogate their discipline

By roger scruton & timothy williamson
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    What is a cat like?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/what-is-a-cat-like-continuants/>

Helping to understand how the world works

By helen steward
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    In our element

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/in-our-element-time/>

Another look at the concept of time

By robin le poidevin
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Truth? It’s not just about the facts

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/post-truth-philosophers/>

Julian Baggini considers what philosophy can add to the post-truth crisis

By julian baggini
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Mind’s construction

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/minds-construction/>

An ambitious case against physicalism

By henry taylor
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    What, exactly, do philosophers do?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/where-modern-philosophy-began/>

Where modern philosophy began, perhaps

By jonathan clark
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    What, really, is the purpose of philosophy?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/really-purpose-philosophy-plato/>

Carlos Fraenkel argues that philosophers today have long abandoned 
Plato’s concerns and world view

By carlos fraenkel
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Papineau vs Dennett: a philosophical dispute

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/dennett-papineau-debate/>

David Papineau and Daniel C. Dennett debate the nature of mind, 
introduced by Tim Crane

Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    What is man?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/roger-scruton-human-nature/>

On a question we do not know how to ask

By kieran setiya
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Essay


    How to teach children about tolerance – and its limits

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/tolerance-ethics-students-education/>

Christina Easton considers how we engage with students on matters of 
ethics, tolerance and critical thinking

By christina easton
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Competence without comprehension

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/competence-without-comprehension-dennett/> 


David Papineau on the peculiar philosophical assumptions of Daniel Dennett

By david papineau
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Matter matters

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/matter-matters/>

Terry Eagleton’s argument from universalism to socialism

By sandy grant
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    For God’s sake

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/god-religious-belief/>

Attempting to make the case for religious belief

By andrew irwin
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Essay


    Who has the right to pluck the goose?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/right-pluck-goose/>

Jane Frecknall-Hughes considers whether the state is entitled to demand 
money from its citizens

By jane frecknall-hughes
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Essay


    Squatting: the urban space as a common good

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/squatting-urban-space-common-good/>

Deanna Dadusc argues that government and neo-liberal gentrifiers work 
together to demonize squatting

By deanna dadusc
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Is philosophy simply harder than science?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/philosophy-simply-harder-science/>

David Papineau considers why philosophy seems to make such slow progress

By david papineau
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    We are not human

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/parfit-we-are-not-human/>

The philosophy of Derek Parfit, and pictures of ourselves both beautiful 
and bizarre

By kieran setiya
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Human, all too human

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/nietzsche-human-all-too-human/>

Andrew Huddleston on the development of Nietzsche’s thought and legacy

By andrew huddleston
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Stupendous intelligence of honey badgers

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/stupendous-intelligence-of-honey-badgers/> 


Ian Ground on the slow move away from anthropomorphism when considering 
animal intelligence

By ian ground
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    How we can be

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/mind-body-problem-tim-crane/>

Tim Crane on how to approach the mind–body problem with more than a 
‘simplistic brain’s eye view’

By tim crane
Philosophy <https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/>


    Soundings and poundings

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/walter-benjamin-prose/>

How the prose of Walter Benjamin is an ‘exercise in attentiveness’ to 
the present moment

By carolin duttlinger
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Foucault investigates

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/foucault-investigates/>

Duncan Kelly on the prodigious output of a writer who has influenced 
disciplines from classics to politics to psychology

By duncan kelly
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Why are the British so scared of cannabis?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/cannabis-ethics-britain/>

David Nutt considers why the UK remains so out of step on legalization

By david nutt
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    The sin of believing

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/ethics-belief-faith/>

Arif Ahmed argues that religious believers fail in their duty to take 
evidence seriously

By arif ahmed
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Fashion: finding authenticity at the surface

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/fashion-ethics/>

Rebecca Arnold argues that it is only our particular prejudices that 
align virtue with modesty

By rebecca arnold
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Dangerously playing God?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/ethics-gm-food/>

Paul Thompson discusses genetic modification: much maligned but little 
understood

By paul thompson
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Alvin Plantinga and the Templeton Prize

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/alvin-plantinga-templeton-prize/>

Rupert Shortt considers the thought of the philosopher whose work has 
helped to keep God alive in academia

By rupert shortt
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Essay


    In praise of narcissism

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/in-praise-of-narcissism/>

Shahidha Bari argues that thinking about ourselves is one of the core 
tasks of philosophy

By shahidha bari
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Eating humans

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/eating-humans-cannibalism/>

Julian Baggini looks for the causes behind our taboo against cannibalism

By julian baggini
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Who was the first modern philosopher?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/imaginary-spaces/>

Steven Nadler on the complex story of modern philosophy

By steven nadler
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Is space exploration a waste of money?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/ethics-space-waste-money/>

Tony Milligan considers our ethical obligations to keep exploring the cosmos

By tony milligan
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Marine A and the morality of killing in war

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/marine-morality/>

Helen Frowe argues that psychological stress does not affect the 
morality of killing

By helen frowe
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Women swooned

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/women-swooned/>

Shahidha Bari examines the enduring appeal of the existentialists

By shahidha bari
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Essay


    Language, truth and Jaffa Cakes

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/jaffa-cakes-philosophy/>

Tim Crane discusses what the cake vs biscuit debate can reveal about 
philosophy

By tim crane
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Un-American activity

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/un-american-activity/>

US philosophy departments during the Cold War

By jonathan rée
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Time to abandon marriage?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/time-to-abandon-marriage/>

Clare Chambers argues the state should stop privileging some 
relationships over others

By clare chambers
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Philosophy vs ethics

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/philosophy-vs-ethics/>

Max Hayward on how theory interacts with messy reality when it comes to 
articulating good behaviour

By max hayward
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Is Britain a nation of Scrooges?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/christmas-britain-giving-more/>

William MacAskill argues that we should consider how lucky we are at 
Christmas, and how much more good we could, and should, do

By william macaskill
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Kindness to animals

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/kindness-to-animals/>

Why treament of creatures will inevitably improve

By mark rowlands
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Wine: Beyond Good and Evil

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/wine-beyond-good-evil/>

Tim Crane argues that society ought to stop moralizing about alcohol

By tim crane
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Beware of Greeks

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/beware-of-greeks/>

The contested argument that pre-Hellenic philosophy existed

By d. l. dusenbury
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Bodies printed on demand

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/bodies-printed-demand-bioprinting/>

Bioprinting and the moral problems of scanning human bodies

By erica neely
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Should boxing be banned?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/should-boxing-be-banned/>

Julian Savulescu and Ingmar Persson discuss the ethics of a perverse 
pleasure

By julian savulescu and ingmar persson
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Sage, Mandarin, Gadfly etc

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/sage-mandarin-gadfly-etc/>

What is it to be a philosopher? Is philosophy an activity requiring 
professional accreditation within a particular institutional setting? Is 
it just whatever is done by professional, academic philosophers? Or...

By stephen gaukroger
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    How Facebook divides us

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/facebook-trump-brexit/>

Bernie Hogan argues that Facebook is polarizing populations and damaging 
the political climate

By bernie hogan
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Pretty as a picture

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/pretty-as-a-picture/>

Inspired by John Locke and the Earl of Shaftesbury, the 
eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher Francis Hutcheson conjectured 
that we have an aesthetic sense. Things in the world strike us as 
beautiful...

By john kulvicki
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Am I just a brain?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/i-just-brain/>

Tim Crane argues that a person is not just a 1.5kg lump of flesh, but 
that doesn't mean we're immaterial souls either

By tim crane
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>|Book 
Review


    Think ahead

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/think-ahead/>

Arguing that all of our core mental states are predictions

By richard holton
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Meaning of life

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/meaning-of-life/>

How to use Tolstoy and Wittgenstein (and others) to map out a theory of 
the value of feeling

By caryl emerson
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Cruel intentions

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/cruel-intentions/>

Will Rees on the despairing search for meaning crammed into the twelve 
years of Kierkegaard’s writing career

By will rees
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Machine learning

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/machine-learning/>

Thinking about how the world is seen to work

By adelheid voskuhl
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Tragic circle

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/tragic-circle/>

Our endless engagement with homelessness

By karen lang
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Self-centred

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/self-centred/>

The tension between the morality of higher purpose and the morality of 
personal fulfilment

By albert weale
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    More equal than others

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/more-equal-than-others-3/>

Julian Baggini on our relationships with animals, and various views on 
the morality of eating some of them

By julian baggini
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Existence, not essence

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/existence-not-essence/>

A philosophical response to modern history

By sudhir hazareesingh
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    On the meaning of everything – within reason

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/within-reason-3/>

Explaining life, the universe and everything

By michael saler
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Oh God, what a blabbering mess!

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/oh-god-what-a-blabbering-mess/>

D. H. Lawrence and Bertrand Russell: a non-meeting of Body and Mind

By tom overton
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    How democracy is possible in the modern age

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/of-the-people-for-the-people/>

How democracy is possible in the modern age

By paul sagar
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Vive la différence

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/vive-la-difference/>

In the late 1970s Vincent Descombes wrote a short sharp book called Le 
Même et l’Autre, published in English soon afterwards as Modern French 
Philosophy. His main argument was that...

By jonathan rée
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Otter ego

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/otter-ego/>

One man’s attempt to become an animal

By mark rowlands
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Get to the point

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/get-to-the-point/>

Ockham’s razor, the “principle of parsimony”, states that simpler 
theories that are compatible with our observations are better than more 
complex ones. The principle has a long history – dating...

By tom graham
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Out there

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/out-there-2/>

In this important book, the philosopher Roger Trigg sets out to honour 
the sciences by not letting them be shouldered with burdens they cannot 
bear, such as being the arbiter...

By andrew davison
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Grounded

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/grounded/>

The Ant Trap aims to refute “ontological individualism”: the view that 
social institutions, events and facts – political parties, financial 
crises, etc – depend exclusively on the individuals that constitute...

By arif ahmed
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Cartesian canines

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/cartesian-canines/>

The Cartesian view of dogs and other non-human animals as biological 
machines devoid of sentience, emotion and intelligence that passed as 
received wisdom for much of the past century has...

By mark derr
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Machine in the machine

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/machine-in-the-machine/>

Descartes has long had a place in the philisophical canon, but from our 
present-day perspective his reputation can look distinctly moth-eaten. 
In epistemology, his quest to construct a complete system...

By john cottingham
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    In progress

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/in-progress/>

Vincenzo Ferrone, who originally worked under the great Italian 
historian Franco Venturi on the history of science, has since the 
beginning of this century been increasingly interested in the political...

By richard bourke
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Intellectual vices

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/intellectual-vices/>

Although Jason Stanley describes his book as “a book about the nature of 
propaganda”, its main aim is political: to develop an argument against 
material inequality. He argues that there...

By olivier massin
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Why save the world?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/why-save-the-world/>

We can distinguish between meaning in life and the meaning of life. 
Inattention to this distinction mars the philosophical study of meaning 
– but it is simple. The meaning of...

By james tartaglia
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Bewitched

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/bewitched/>

What links Wittgenstein's thought to his life? His charisma, 
confessional prose and the struggle that is philosophy itself

By tim crane
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    This won’t hurt

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/this-wont-hurt/>

“This book is not a suicide note”, Simon Critchley reassures us at the 
start of Notes on Suicide. Instead he proposes to “look at suicide 
closely, carefully, and perhaps a...

By amia srinivasan
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    What lies ahead

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/what-lies-ahead/>

The story is as old as philosophy itself. Socrates, found guilty of 
impiety and of corrupting the youth, is sentenced to death by an 
Athenian court. Given the chance to...

By will rees
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Not natural

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/not-natural/>

Applying for medical and retirement benefits at an American Social 
Security office, as I’ve just done, is a grim affair. There, crammed 
into an overheated room, sit the aged, the...

By jerry coyne
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Bars and stripes

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/bars-and-stripes/>

Le Collège de France, founded in 1530 and located in Paris’s Latin 
Quarter, is one of France’s elite institutions. It is a public 
institution of higher education but it enrols...

By david garland
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Walking shadow

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/walking-shadow/>

You look down benignly from a perch in heaven onto the street where you 
lived. Or you watch with terror from inside a lifeless body as the 
coffin lid is...

By david e. cooper
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Body language

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/body-language-3/>

"Butler is the closest thing we have in the humanities to a rock star", 
reads a sales pitch for Senses of the Subject, a new collection of 
essays spanning the length and breadth of Judith Butler's academic career...

By will rees
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Never as free

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/never-as-free/>

Among the handful of shorter philosophical works that Sartre published 
in the run-up to his monumental L’Être et le Néant (1943; Being and 
Nothingness, 1956), there were two – L’Imagination...

By sarah richmond
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Look who’s back

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/look-whos-back-2/>

Thirteenth-century scholastic philos­ophers have a reputation for being 
slavish followers of Aristotle. The reputation is not well deserved. 
Consider the phenomenon of vision. For Aristotle, we see something when a...

By peter adamson
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Ways to help

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/ways-to-help/>

It has become a moral cliché to deplore the exploding economic 
inequality that plagues our planet, both within individual states and 
across their boundaries. What is to be done about...

By thomas nagel
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    In the light of

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/in-the-light-of/>

If you were looking for a guide to take you to Larissa, and you found 
someone who had been there many times before, who knew the right way and 
who...

By barry stroud
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Stuck in the throat

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/stuck-in-the-throat/>

In January 1956, Albert Camus flew from Paris, where he had lived since 
the end of the Second World War, to his native Algeria. For nearly two 
years, the country,...

By robert zaretsky
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    What went wrong?

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/what-went-wrong/>

 From the briefest of metaphors to comparative studies of empires across 
millennia, the realization of unobvious parallels can strike sparks of 
new understanding. Michael Walzer, now eighty and one of...

By lucy beckett
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Ideal art

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/ideal-art/>

Freedom and necessity, heroic casualties and passive survivors, 
destructive conflict and constructive resolution, the human and the 
beyond: in modern discussions, categories like these are regularly 
invoked as ways of...

By michael silk
History of philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/>


    Great escapes

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/great-escapes/>

On reflection it seems strange that the English-speaking world should 
have waited almost fifty-five years to produce a student’s commentary on 
Emmanuel Levinas’s book Totalité et infini (1961; Totality and...

By william rees
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Feel for you

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/feel-for-you/>

The alleged opposition between reason and feeling is at the core of the 
eighteenth-century debates between rat­­ionalists and sentimentalists. 
Sentimentalists argued that only feeling could make us act. If this...

By philip gerrans
Contemporary philosophy 
<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/>


    Right back

<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/right-back/>

The contemporary debate over the validity of religious belief tends to 
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