• Accountability: to determine culpability and ensure that retribution is fair, respectful, reasonable, and measured, taking into account traditions. To be just, a war needs to satisfy all of these ...

Articles by 'Juno Browning'. Authors Author: "Juno Browning" Moral Train-ing by Juno Browning [Issue 176: October/November 2026: Cartoon] Just Desserts by Juno Browning [Issue 175: August/September ...

A related complaint is that when we try to imagine nothing, we end up imagining empty space. So – the thought goes – in asking why there’s something rather than nothing we’re really asking why space ...

The saving of hope from this dismissal will fall on the shoulders of Gabriel Marcel and Ernst Bloch, through whose works a more potent hope, rather different perhaps from the common understanding of ...

A History Peter Keeble causes us to think about causation. There are many areas that might be used to trace the course of Western philosophy. Physical causa ...

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 ...

Elizabeth Laidlaw explores some parallels between a modern picture of the brain and Plato’s description of the psyche. Developments in neurobiology reveal a picture of the brain with many parallels to ...

Richard Oxenberg tells us why democracy needs philosopher-citizens. I would like to begin with a bit of a riddle: How do you turn a democracy into a tyranny? The answer, as those familiar with Plato’s ...

Philosophers rarely get worked up about clothing. Clothes can be a source of aesthetic pleasure, and few philosophers are adamantly opposed to pleasure. (They may object to pleasures too dearly bought ...

David P. Barash says, not necessarily. Ideas have consequences. Few people – and probably no philosophers – would disagree with this. It is also unarguably true that not all ideas are equally ...

Ralph Blumenau tells us what great thinkers said about great music. Today some universities have courses in the Philosophy of Music. They study such questions as: What is the definition of music? What ...

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 organized, who would govern ...