Are People Plastic?
Peter Sanlon gives a brief introduction to his book on 'Queer Studies'.
Richard Dawkins and the Man Delusion
This month England has been taken by storm. Not rain – but riots. Unlike the weather, it came without warning and has left the nation…
Posthumanism, technology and immortality
An interview with Professor Brent Waters on posthumanism and its implications.
Are we sinners?
What does human society tell us about human nature? Are we essentially good or bad?
The Libet Experiment and its Implications for Conscious Will
Dr Peter Clarke considers whether the experiments of Benjamin Libet call into question the reality of human will. Although quite a…
Young Nation
Why does the desire to be young again continually re-appear in contemporary culture? What is a Christian response?
Do We Know Why We Are All Equal?
The forthright defence of the permissibility of "after-birth abortion" – infanticide – by two Melbourne-based philosophers in…
Nothing But a Pack of Neurons?
In this paper, Stuart Judge considers whether discoveries in neuroscience that correlate our mental activity with our brain activity…
"Are human beings just deluxe chimps?"
Some of my friends never tire of pointing out that human beings are just animals. People have been doing this for decades but recent work…