Epistemic reasons matter for what you should believe. But then, some think there are practical reasons that matter, too. How could both sorts of reasons be weighed together to determine the doxastic ...

Our everyday lives are filled with constant opportunities to help anonymous strangers, by giving to charity, volunteering, and so on. They are also filled with constant opportunities to reduce the ...

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Abstract. Aristotle’s catalogue of ethical virtues includes the virtue of magnificence (megaloprepeia), the mean between the vices of vulgarity and shabbin

A one-day workshop on the philosophy of imagination, addressing such questions as: What is the epistemic role of imagination? How does it work in our engagement with fiction and in thought experiments...

The concept of the refugee is currently under several distinct forms of pressure. Populists, in many wealthy states, have demonized the figure of the re...

Series exploring the place and nature of faith in today's world.

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Welcome to G10 festival of great ideas on philosophy, science, and art. A unique opportunity to delve into the minds of the world’s leading thinkers. Make the invisible visible by drawing special conn...

Clinician researchers can influence the prioritisation and impact of research and ensure its benefits are spread fairly, write Joseph Millum and Leah Pierson Health professionals play a critical rol...

Britain’s housing crisis is not just a policy failure but a moral one, says Bradley Hillier-Smith. When we treat the homeless as ‘nuisances’ and ‘pests’, we deny their humanity – and our own

The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees, by Bradley Hillier-Smith (New York: Routledge, 2025), 286 pp., cloth 48.44. - Volume 39 Issue 2

The study of how to think about ideas and ask questions about truth, right and wrong – includes ethics, history of philosophy, logic

This interview with Contralytic ended up being my philosophical manifesto.

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights is an outstanding resource covering key questions, problems, and debates in scholarship on the nature, justification, authority and relevance o...

Matthew Sweet discusses the mythology, psychology and politics getting along with people.

Podcast Episode · The Gray Area with Sean Illing · 14/07/2025 · 52m

This article suggests that future ethical analyses of state pensions should focus on either or both of two distinct ideal types of state pension, one of which is intended to serve a sufficientarian p...

As Zhuangzi saw, there is no immutably true self. Instead our identity is as dynamic and alive as a butterfly in flight

This guidance aims to synthesize current good practice for incorporating ethics into health research priority setting. It is relevant to anyone making decisions about what research to support or condu...

To explore the new guidance and its implications for practice, we invite you to join a virtual panel discussion hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 23 June 2025.

In countries which allow it, there is no evidence that people are coerced into assisted dying

Soon it will be possible to diagnose health conditions such as Alzheimer’s years ahead of time. But would you want to know?