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Adam Smith and Scotland in the Age of Enlightenment
Read moreby Craig Smith 2023 is the 300th anniversary of the birth of Adam Smith. Smith is one of the very…
Buying Your Self on the Internet

Don't forget to read the fine print: Andelka M. Phillips looks at what you might be signing away when you order that online DNA test.
A History of Distributed Cognition

Distributed cognition – the idea that cognition or the mind extends across brain, body and world – is not a…
The continuing importance of Chile’s Cold War history

Earlier this year, the United States government declassified more than 40,000 documents showing the American intelligence community’s reporting on the…
The Past as Prologue on Presidential Privilege

As the Mueller investigation comes to a close, Kevin M. Baron looks to the history of the Freedom of Information Act and finds that the battle between Congress and the White House is nothing new.
Clausewitz and Civil–Military Relations

Many readers of On War have taken Clausewitz’s discussion of the ‘logic’ of war tending to ‘extremes’ and concluded that…
Gilles Deleuze versus Process Philosophy

Arjen Kleinherenbrink argues that Deleuzian metaphysics is actually two, very separate, metaphysics.
Does the British government learn from the history of military interventions?

From Iraq to Libya, Louise Kettles asks whether the UK has learned to learn from its past mistakes in Middle-Eastern military interventions.
5 Things You Never Knew About Spinoza

Spinoza: a renegade thinker whose life was far from boring. From stab wounds to spiders, how many of these strange facts did you know about Spinoza?
Primary and Secondary Qualities: More Trouble than You’d Think!

Size and shape versus sound and colour: discover how primary and secondary qualities have perplexed philosophers for thousands of years, and how Thomas Reid offers us a way forward.
What Electricity Has Done to Thought: an excerpt from The Life Intense by Tristan Garcia

What Electricity Has Done to Thought: an excerpt from The Life Intense by Tristan Garcia.