Pauline O’Flynn explores de Beauvoir’s argument that punishment is necessary to demonstrate that the degradation of humanity can never be ignored. Simone de Beauvoir poses a disturbing moral question ...

Articles in category 'Columns : Philosophical Haiku'. Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) by Terence Green [Issue 171: December 2025 / January 2026] ...

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Know the name, can’t quite recall what he thought? John-Francis Phipps explains the surprising ideas of the philosopher of vitalism. Bergson’s name is not usually included on shortlists of the ...

Dan Pollen weighs up the pros and cons of indefinitely extended life. Billionaire Bryan Johnson is obsessed with anti-ageing. This led him to launch Project Blueprint, in which he underwent a series ...

Well, we do try to deal with the big themes here at Philosophy Now, and this issue’s theme is Life and Death. Philosophy arises out of the conditions of life, out of the questions that life throws at ...

Hertfordshire scraps philosophy • Nancy Cartwright honoured for phil sci work • Cops raid Moscow philosophy institute — News reports by Anja Steinbauer ...

Curiously, antinatalists often reject not only the imperfect world in which we live, but even hypothetical utopias. Consider a world where disease, war, poverty, and death are eradicated – where ...

Jimmy Alfonso Licon wonders what’s wrong with killing – first chickens, then humans. Imagine preparing breakfast with fertilized chicken eggs. I don’t mean the unfertilized eggs you find in the ...

Tony Shenton asks, should we cancel the compromised intellectual, or read them? There’s a particular kind of discomfort that doesn’t feel purely intellectual. It feels personal. It arises when a ...

Patrick West on postmodernism and communicative reason. Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026) was a great thinker with wide interests. His work encompassed a vast array of fields from philosophy, social theory, ...

Teresa Candeias reads Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem. In May 1960, Adolf Eichmann, a former SS officer who had organised logistics for the Holocaust (the rail network, for instance), was ...