Articles Science, Ockham’s Razor & God David Glass and Mark McCartney say Ockham’s razor doesn’t cut it with God.. The idea that science has explained God away is very popular. The suggestion is that ...

Articles The Meaning of Death Laszlo Makay, George Marosan Jr. and David Vatai consider whether death destroys meaning or creates it.. Unsurprisingly, people are obsessed with the meaning of their ...

Humour Philosophy and Humor An introduction by Tim Madigan. “It is worth noting that Wittgenstein once said that a serious and good philosophical work could be written that would consist entirely of ...

The Art Issue Art As An Encounter Daniel Vargas Gómez considers what we encounter when we encounter art.. When Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) wrote Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Über ...

The Arts Art As Sensation: Four Painters As Philosophers Of Art Patricia Railing explains the philosophical ideas behind some of abstract art’s most famous abstractions.. There has been much ...

Articles An Essay on Nothing Sophia Gottfried meditates on the emptiness of non-existence.. In philosophy there is a lot of emphasis on what exists. We call this ontology, which means, the study of ...

Forms of Pacifism. Pacifism emerges as people take these moral restraints on war ever more seriously. Varieties of pacifism differ by degree. It is helpful to understand the various forms of pacifism ...

Science & Morality Einstein’s Morality Ching-Hung Woo looks at the many facets of Albert Einstein’s approach to ethics.. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) regarded morality as indispensable to the survival ...

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 ...

Articles Philosophy & Cocktails Robin Small will have a Martini – stirred, not shaken.. Several books on wine and philosophy have appeared in recent years. Amongst these, Roger Scruton’s I Drink ...

Articles In Defense of Alain Badiou Robert Michael Ruehl describes new political possibilities.. In Issue 107, Philosophy Now published James Alexander’s ‘A Refutation of Snails by Roast Beef’, an ...

Books The Cosmic Blueprint A review by Desmond Tarrant.. Paul Davies was Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He left there for the sunshine of Australia ...