Cold War Thinking

EDITORIAL CoIcI War Thinking No-one will expect us to have such illusions of grandeur as to publish a condemnation of the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Big powers are not to be bothered by such Lilliputian salvoes. Nonetheless, we should be bothered by it, or rather by the way that the western media, western politicians, and […]

Should We Defend Philosophy?

Should we defend philosophy? ‘Fight the cuts~’ The slogan has obvious validity when it is a matter of axing hospitals and nursery schools, of increasing the sizes of school classes and closing old people’s homes. And so the same slogan comes easily to hand when the proposed cuts are aimed at higher education. ‘Fighting the […]

Day Schools and Sociobiology

BDITOIWlL NODS OAY SCHOOLS AND SOCIOBIOLOGY The main Radical Philosophy activity recently has been the holding of day schools. Two have been held so far this year, and a third is planned for the autumn. We see these as serving an important purpose. It has always been difficult, within the Raiical Philosophy movement, to develop […]