Feature series - Rationale Magazine

16 Jan

If I was asked to teach an undergraduate course on Rationality 101, I would begin by introducing the students to the work of Karl Poppe...

11 Jan

Is there a necessary connection between being a rationalist and being an atheist? To answer this, we must tease out what we mean by ‘ra...

08 Jan

This is Part 2. You can read Part 1 here. Distinguishing faith and reason Richard Colledge, in ‘Intellectual Assent and the Value of...

07 Jan

"For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their t...

05 Jan

Politicians often confront us with warnings about the greatest threats facing their country or the world, and, just as frequently, othe...

02 Jan

As editor of the Australian Rationalist and later as president of the Rationalist Society of Australia, I was often called upon to just...

31 Dec

I don’t suggest that the Rationalist Society ought to have the answers to all the problems of the world, but adherence to the principle...

28 Dec

For years now, I have heard people speak sceptically, even dismissively, about ‘Western logic’ or ‘Cartesian rationalism’, as if the il...