Articles

Welcome to the articles section of the RIP website. In this section, you will find a selection of articles from the RIP journal Philosophy.

Issues in Darwinism

• I Rather Think I Am A Darwinian
• In Defence of Selfish Genes
• Stove's Anti-Darwinism
• Genes and Egoism
• The Law of the Jungle: Moral Alternatives and Principles of Evolution
• Gene-juggling
• Selfish Genes and Social Darwinism
• So You Think You Are a Darwinian?
• A New Religion

Cambridge Philosophers

• Cambridge Philosophers: McTaggart
• Cambridge Philosophers: Russell
• CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHERS II: Ludwig Wittgenstein

Issues of Punishment

• Capital Punishment and Realism
• A Theory of Punishment
• Is Retributivism Analytic?
• Punishment as Language
• Locke on the Death Penalty
• Deserved Punishment, Deserved Harm, Deserved Blame
• Punishment and Remorse
• The Quiddity of Mercy
• Intolerable Wrong and Punishment

Miscellaneous

• Psychology and Human Behaviour: Is there a limit to psychological explanation?
• Our Place in the Cosmos
• Moral Sentiments, Social Exclusion, Aesthetic Education
• ‘Two Cultures’ Revisited
• Ruth Anna Putnam and the Fact-Value Distinction
• The Reason the Universe Exists is that it Caused Itself to Exist
• Courses of Action or the Uncatchableness of Mental Acts
• A Bergsonian Approach to A- and B-Time

Annual Lectures

• Social Structures and their Threats to Moral Agency
• Conceiving the Impossible and the Mind-Body Problem
• Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline

Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Wittgenstein’s Ph.D Viva - A Re-Creation
• Wittgenstein on Language and Games
• Wittgenstein 1929-1931
• Wittgenstein’s Indeterminism
• Wittgenstein on Inconsistency

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