Philosophy & Psychology - Rationale Magazine

Sam Baron 10/03/2025

You can doubt just about anything. But there’s one thing you can know for sure: you are having thoughts right ...

Richard Gunderman 03/03/2025

“Who wants to live forever?” Freddie Mercury mournfully asks in Queen’s 1986 song of the same name. The answer: quite ...

Armita Zarnegar 03/02/2025

Many people think of psychology as being primarily about mental health, but its story goes far beyond that. As the ...

Mark Boespflug 18/12/2024

Some years ago, I was in a lively conversation with a software developer about arguments for and against God’s existence. ...

Elizabeth Dangerfield 14/12/2024

We are facing the growing challenge of how to respond incisively and effectively to curb the movements away from rational ...

Thomas Lalevée 06/11/2024

Liberalism is at a turning point. The rise of the far right in Western democracies has challenged liberal values and ...

Gary Bakker 02/11/2024

An article appeared in my local newspaper in Tasmania recently on the issue of smacking children. I’m sure you’ve seen ...

Jonathan Meddings 16/10/2024

As I write these words, could I be writing something else? It seems intuitive to think I could. If I ...

Ned Curthoys 25/09/2024

Lyndsey Stonebridge begins We Are Free to Change the World, her illuminating biography of Hannah Arendt, by reminding us of her ...

Filippo Menozzi 31/07/2024

The US philosopher and literary critic, Fredric Jameson, once claimed that it is “easier to imagine the end of the world than ...

Cameron Shackell 27/06/2024

Forty years after his death in Paris on June 25, 1984, many of Michel Foucault’s once radical ideas now seem ...

Elizabeth Dangerfield 24/06/2024

According to all the advice on how to win friends and influence people, I should start this essay by explaining ...