Philosophy & Psychology - Rationale Magazine

Christopher Pollard 09/07/2022

In 1845, Karl Marx declared: “philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it”. ...

Elise Springer 13/06/2022

The word ‘evil’ circulates widely in the wake of terrible public violence. The May 24, 2022, massacre at an elementary ...

Andrew Perfors 31/05/2022

There are two fundamental reasons why misinformation is a bigger problem than ever before. The first is tied to the ...

Dr Myint Zan 19/05/2022

One hundred and fifty years ago on 18 May 1872 the philosopher Bertrand Russell was born. Of everything he said ...

Paul Monk 11/04/2022

This is an edited extract from a dinner speech to the Liberal Club of the University of Melbourne, delivered on ...

Erik Gustafsson 20/03/2022

We constantly make decisions about who to trust. Much of the time we’re bombarded with massive amounts of information on ...

Paul Monk 15/03/2022

A very old friend and longtime mentor of mine, now 85 years of age, recently expressed the gloomy opinion that ...

Reg Naulty 25/02/2022

The philosophical/spiritual writer Eckhart Tolle has had success beyond most writers’ wildest dreams. His first book, The Power of Now, ...

Jack Dikian 21/02/2022

The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia from 1346-53. It is ...

Luke Zaphir 10/02/2022

It’s fairly common to see many claims or arguments end with a curt “do your research”. In some ways, it’s ...

Paul Monk 28/01/2022

The August 2021 issue of Harper’s magazine has a cover story headed ‘What are the odds? The Troubled Quest to ...

Carrick Ryan 13/12/2021

After five years of working for the Joint Counter Terrorism Team, where I was consumed by the persistent and genuine ...