A Middle-Eastern Ghazal poem concerning the subject matter of Astronomy and Metaphysics
Article Review: Illya Somin, ‘Deliberative Democracy and Political Ignorance’ by Paul Neville
This review goes through the critique of deliberative democracy in Illya Somin’s article. Political ignorance features as the core argument against the deliberative democracy. After explaining the effects of rational ignorance and irrationality, the review is favourable toward Somin’s article praising it for illustrating shortcomings and limitations within our current political system.
Editor’s Welcome: Issue 2
Dear Readers, Welcome to our second issue! Again we have a great selection of thought provoking reads. This issue features…
Discourse, Materiality, the Subject and Resistance by Dinesh Devaraj
The materiality of the body, as articulated by Judith Butler, is the sedimented effect of reiterative norms. As such, this…
Challenging epistemological arrogance, and the wait for a career epiphany: A Graduate interview with Toby Coates
By Rosie Trappes April, 2015 Rose: You’ve studied philosophy. When and where did you do that? What kind of course…
Resolving the social dilemmas of climate action by Hayden Wilkinson
According to scientific consensus, one problem currently adversely affecting the environment, and perhaps the most serious, is that of greenhouse…
Transient Sexual Desire: Sartre’s Philosophy on Lust by Nick Holt
Sexual desire is widely recognised as a physiological response to a human instinct ostensibly referred to as one’s ‘sex drive’,…
To Be Free by Ella Forster
12 December 2013 Death hovers in the room as he has for several days now. His presence has been noted…
Feminism versus Freud by Katherine Birkett
“Her self-love is mortified by the comparison with the boy’s far superior equipment…” – Sigmund Freud, ‘Femininity’, 1933. In ‘The…
Simone de Beauvoir on ‘The Woman in Love’ by Bridget Allan
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).…
