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The New Criterion – January 2024 issue:
Myint Zan compares different ways of denying free will.
Grant Bartley wants to know what the problem with freedom is all about.
Nurana Rajabova is wary of an attempt to dismiss determinism to keep free will.
Philip Badger constructs a materialist ethical theory, with the help of John Rawls.
Basil Gala on what it takes to free ourselves from our formative factors.
The New Criterion – December 2023 issue:
The New Criterion – November 2023 issue:
Jack Pemment considers the strange attraction between two deep minds.
Georgia Arkell reconsiders Arendt’s explosive report on the trial of Eichmann.
Eldar Sarajlic philosophically considers what it is to do philosophy.
Mathis Bitton suggests three ways that philosophy progresses.
George Sher writes some philosophy to tell us.
Alexander Jeuk says overspecialization, academic debate focusing, and simplistic argument structures, are prominent missteps in modern philosophy.
Justin Bartlett explores a basic distinction between understandings of ethics.
Michael-John Turp asks if anyone has the authority to establish moral truth.
Paul Stearns argues against moral relativism and moral presentism.
Myles King contends that physics helps us understand ethics.
Andrew Kemle says that evolutionary forces give us the answer.
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