The Ultimate Salvation or a Sterile Hell? An Introduction French existential-phenomenological philosopher, Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex altered the…
Kant’s Schematism and Time Determinations by Rosie Hill
Within the Critique of Pure Reason, time and space are two of the most important concepts. By Kant’s account, they…
Issue 1: Editor’s Welcome
Dear Readers, Welcome to our very first online Exordium! I am very pleased to bring you this collection of high…
Education, cricket bats, and philosophy in the public domain
An interview with philosophy graduate Michelle Sowey October, 2014 Rose: What have you done since studying philosophy? What are you…
Re-thinking the Political in Lyotard’s Libidinal Economy and Naked Lunch by Alana Clegg
Jean-Francois Lyotard, a main protagonist in postmodern thought, sought to defend and promote difference and fragmentation in the face of…
Proletarian Pessimism and Bourgeois Optimism by Dinesh Devaraj
Marx and Keynes on the state and crisis tendencies in capitalism The fundamental difference between the views of Karl Marx…
Menzies on causation: difference-making and its flaws by Hayden Wilkinson
Early counterfactual theories of causation such as that of Lewis (1973) tend to be beset by various counterintuitive consequences such…
Logic, self-interest, and Nietzsche as a youthful indiscretion: An interview with philosophy graduate David Parsons
September, 2014 Rose: You’ve studied philosophy. When and where did you do that? What kind of course was it? David:…
A Critical Analysis of Moore’s ‘Proof of an External World’ by Zachary Ong
In ‘Proof of an External World’, Moore seeks to prove the existence of things ‘external to our minds’ (Moore 1959).…
Čapek’s costly route to relativistic presentism by Hayden Wilkinson
It may be claimed that elements of the special theory of relativity, which has extensive empirical and theoretical support[1], directly…
Meanderings by Arief Arman
Letters that form words that create sentences that breed paragraphs that turn to chapters. Such is the beauty of language…
Climate Change and the Inconvenience of Individual Liberty by Deanna Simpson
Introduction The purpose of this essay is to provide a critique of individual liberty as a primary value for human…
Laughter as a ‘Serious’ Matter: An analysis of laughter’s social captivity and its emancipatory potential by Emma Wilson
“To understand laughter, we must put it back into its natural environment, which is society, and above all we must…
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