In Think, Issue 7, Brendan Larvor took the Archbishop of Canterbury to task for suggesting that atheism and humanism should not be taught in schools alongside the major faiths. Here, Brenda Watson defends the Archbishop's position.

A dialogue investigating whether the usual religious defences of belief in God are really up to the job.

Do fetuses have rights, including a right to life?

What does a lover mean when he says, ‘You're the most beautiful girl in the world’?

Is ‘Yuk’ a suitable basis for making moral decisions?

Is time travel possible? Does it even make sense? Heather Dyke explores one of the sci-fi film buff's favourite philosophical conundrums.

Look at any investment advertisement and you will encounter: PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUIDE TO FUTURE PERFORMANCE. This statement is a tribute to the power of the Financial Services Authority. Let us see how past performance plays with those down on the farm.

Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces tips and pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously.

In this regular series Michael Clark, editor of the journal Analysis, presents a number of he most intriguing philosophical paradoxes.

By ‘applying ethics’, do philosophers actually succeed in corrupting philosophy?

Timothy O'Hagan explores some of the apparent paradoxes in the writings of Rousseau.

Three students, namely Walid, a Druze man, Fatimah, a Muslim woman and Sigal, a secular Jewish woman are eating lunch in the cafeteria at the Western Galilee Academic College.

In this short article Tibor Machan questions whether those who reject Western liberalism yet call for a return to morality are being entirely consistent.

Are the French really ‘cheese-eating surrender monkeys’? Jeff Mitchell investigates what motivates such U.S. anti-French sentiments.

Ziyad Marar presents a brief history of the quest for happiness, and of its relation to philosophy.