Philosophy

How the Mind Really Works

An exchange on Robert C. Berwick and Jeremy C. Ahouse's review of Stephen Pinker's How the Mind Works (BR, April/May 1998)

  • Steven Pinker
  • Robert C. Berwick
  • Jeremy C. Ahouse

Victims and Agents

What Greek tragedy can teach us about sympathy and responsibility.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

The Right to Choose Death?

A moral argument for the permissibility of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide

  • F. M. Kamm

Democracy and Positive Liberty

Can liberal constitutional theory make space for the positive aspect of political freedom?

  • Frank Michelman

Race, Genes, and IQ

Critics of The Bell Curve have attacked every point in the book—except the most important one.

  • Ned Block

The Last Time I Saw Yaakov

No matter how political things seem, they are invariably personal.

  • Neil Gordon

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Equality and Responsibility

Can egalitarians take the idea of personal responsibility seriously?

  • John Roemer
with responses from
  • T. M. Scanlon
  • Robert M. Solow
  • Samuel Scheffler
  • Richard A. Epstein
  • Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
  • Eric Maskin
  • Arthur Ripstein
  • S. L. Hurley
  • Nancy L. Rosenblum

Loyalty to Humanity

Is patriotism a morally irrelevant characteristic?

  • Anthony Appiah

Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism

Our primary allegiance should be to the community of human beings across the entire world.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum
with responses from
  • Anthony Appiah
  • Harvey C. Mansfield
  • Anne Norton
  • Robert Pinsky
  • Hilary Putnam
  • Richard Sennett
  • Benjamin R. Barber
  • Immanuel Wallerstein
  • Amy Gutmann
  • Michael Dorris
  • Judith Butler
  • Leo Marx
  • Paul Berman
  • David A. Strauss
  • Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
  • Lloyd Rudolph
  • Michael Lerner
  • Charles Beitz
  • Rachel Hadas
  • William E. Connolly
  • Nathan Glazer
  • Charles Taylor
  • Herbert Gintis
  • Michael Walzer

Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism

The life of the cosmopolitan, who puts right before country, and universal reason before the symbols of national belonging, need not be boring, flat, or lacking in love.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

The Possibility of Humanitarian Intervention

Are states moral agents?

  • Noam Chomsky

After Rawls

The scramble of moral philosophy.

  • David Steiner

Candidates for Survival

A Talk with Harold Bloom

  • Harold Bloom
  • Ellen Spirer

Notes on Prosthetic Imagination

As computers amplify human imagination, there is cause for both worry and wonder.

  • Daniel Dennett

How Not to Teach Reading

  • John Holt

Philosophy According to Nozick

On Philosophical Explanations.

  • Daniel Dennett

Philosophers on Photography

  • Pepe Karmel

The Piaget-Chomsky Debate

What future for the cognitive sciences?

  • Howard Gardner
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