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Exercise your mind with philosophy for everyone. Think is our accessible but challenging journal filled with digestible content from leading philosophers and written for a general audience. Scroll down for individual subscriptions.

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Philosophy

Our flagship academic journal, Philosophy, was established in 1926 and publishes rigorous, high impact articles, discussions and book reviews from world-leading academics across a wide range of topics. Scroll down for individual subscriptions.

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The 2022 Essay Prize

The topic of this year’s Philosophy Essay Prize is ‘Emotions’. The winner will receive £2,500 and their essay will be published in Philosophy. The submission deadline is 20 December 2022.

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Books

We publish several themed volumes every year based on our conferences and lecture series, alongside free philosophy teaching guides.

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A Philosophers’ Manifesto: Ideas and Arguments to Change the World →

A diverse range of philosophers from around the world present the philosophical case for a new policy or law they think will make an improvement to the world.

Edited by Julian Baggini

Death and Meaning →

What is it for a life to have meaning? Does life have no meaning because some day each of us will die? Or do death and mortality inform a meaningful life? Philosophers address these important questions in this collection of papers.

Edited by Michael Hauskeller

How Do We Know? The Social Dimension of Knowledge →

Knowledge is often thought of as something individual, but our knowledge is dependent on other people’s testimony and expertise, and on the norms and practices of our society. This volume gathers perspectives on Social Epistemology from experts around the world.

Edited by Julian Baggini

Free articles

Philosophy

Infinitesimals, Nations, and Persons: In memoriam D.A.P. 11 December 1942 − 1 January 2017

Ian Rumfitt compares three sorts of case in which philosophers have argued that we cannot assert the Law of Excluded Middle for statements of identity.

By Ian Rumfitt

Philosophy

A Reasonable Frugality

Our choices and actions could ensure the perpetual future of life… or, in contrast, through malign intent or through misadventure, misdirected technology could jeopardize life's potential, foreclosing its human and post-human future.

By David Wiggins

Think

God and Morality

Richard Swinburne argues that the existence of God is not a precondition of there being moral truths, but that his existence does impact on what moral truths there are.

By Richard Swinburne

Think

Mathematics: Discovery or Invention?

How is it possible for there to be an ontology of mathematical objects set apart from the familiar ontology of physical things and from the familiar ontology of mental things?

By Kit Fine

Think

It's Not Brains or Personality so It Must Be Looks: Why Women Give Up on Philosophy

A discussion of the under-representation of women in academic philosophy, focusing on the perception both of the nature of women and of the nature of philosophy itself.

By Stephen Law