Feature series

The age of reason: Polarisation is undermining rational debate

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

As editor of the Australian Rationalist and later as president of the Rationalist Society of Australia, I was often called ...
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Preaching science and reason is not enough

I don’t suggest that the Rationalist Society ought to have the answers to all the problems of the world, but ...
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Reason in Western civilisation

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