Private education, and whether or not it is morally defensible, is currently a focus of public debate. Here, Adam Swift explains why he believes some of the popular justifications for private schooling just won't do.

Richard Swinburne responds to criticisms of his arguments from design for the existence of God.

Frank Jackson introduces a seemingly intractable mystery concerning ‘if…then…’ statements.

Piers Benn explores the moral ramifications of a recent court case involving the Pro-Life Alliance.

Richard Double takes us through James' defence of belief in God, exposing a few fallacies along the way.

Marilyn Mason, education officer of the British Humanist Association, asks whether an adequate moral education must involve religion, and reflects on the way that attitudes to moral education have changed over the last fifty years.

Roy Jackson's introduction to Neitzsche's Beyond Good and Evil will prove invaluable to those reading Neitzsche for the first time.

Richard Dawkins argues both that Darwin's theory made a God-as-the-designer-of-species redundant, and also that the problem of evil provides overwhelming evidence against God's existence. But Michael Ruse suspects Dawkins may be too hasty…

In this regular series Michael Clark, editor of the journal Analysis, presents a number of the most intriguing philosophical paradoxes. Here we examine the paradox of inference.

When people ask ‘What is the meaning of life?’ what, exactly, are they asking? And does God provide us with an answer? Alan Sidelle investigates.

Michael Bradie challenges the assumption, common among sociobiologists and evolutionary psychologists, that it is to science, not philosophy, that we must look if we wish to answer the fundamental questions of ethics.

Richard Ryder recounts the birth of the term ‘speciesism’

Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously. Here we look at a particularly underhand way of avoiding answering a question. It is popular with politicians around the world.