When we explain someone's behaviour, we do so by appealing to their mental states – their beliefs, desires, and so on. But, as Fred Dretske explains below, materialists have a hard time explaining how our mental states could have any effect on our behaviour.

Nigel Warburton is not betting that God exists…

Roger Crisp asks whether hedonism is quite as bad as is often supposed.

Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously.

Simon Glendinning explains the mysteries of phenomenology.

Peter Cave gets to grips with maths, God and the meaning of life.

Vamsi Chinthapalli introduces some of the most common fallacies.

Al Martinich explains Hobbes' view on how the rights of the individual are to be balanced against the need for government.

Stephen Mulhall explains and assesses some of the ‘communitarian’ criticisms of liberalism.

The film The Matrix is a riproaring adventure. Its plot owes a great deal to Descartes.

If, as Locke believed, our words stand for Ideas hidden away inside our minds, how do we know that we all mean the same thing by them?

Is it right for a wife to take sperm from a dying husband in order to create a child posthumously? Daniel Sokol discusses a recent case.

This article discusses some alleged flaws and peculiarities in Darwin's theory of evolution and in the thought processes of modern Darwinists.

In Issue 6 of Think, Adam Swift argued for the abolition of private schools. Here, Antony Flew responds, arguing that an alternative and no less meritocratic solution might be to bring back state-funded grammar schools.

When is a society egalitarian? When is it a meritocracy? The answers to these questions are not as obvious as some seem to think.

Brendan Larvor finds that the Archbishop of Canterbury's recent arguments about religious education are a curate's egg.

In this regular series Michael Clark, editor of the journal Analysis, presents a number of the most intriguing philosophical paradoxes. Here we examine the paradox of the unexpected examination.