In Think, Issue 7, Brendan Larvor took the Archbishop of Canterbury to task for suggesting that atheism and humanism should not be taught in schools alongside the major faiths. Here, Brenda Watson defends the Archbishop's position.

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.

Richard Norman examines justifications for war that are rooted in the right of self-defence.

Nigel Warburton is not betting that God exists…

In the second of our two articles focusing on the war in Iraq, Richard Ryder looks at a range of possible justifications, and finds them all wanting.

A dialogue investigating whether the usual religious defences of belief in God are really up to the job.

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

Do fetuses have rights, including a right to life?

Ted Schick grapples with the New Age thinker Fritjof Capra. Is Capra right to suggest that the Eastern Mystics have been vindicated by the discoveries of modern science?

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

Michael Hauskeller discusses a famous thought-experiment that appears to show that we actually want far more then merely to feel happy.

What does a lover mean when he says, ‘You're the most beautiful girl in the world’?

Is ‘Yuk’ a suitable basis for making moral decisions?

Simon Glendinning explains the mysteries of phenomenology.

In Think 7, philosopher Jenny Teichman accused the geneticist Professor Stephen Jones and other contemporary Darwinists of confusion and of overestimating Darwinism's explanatory power. Here, Micheal Ruse explains why he believes it is actually Teichman who is confused.

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

Is time travel possible? Does it even make sense? Heather Dyke explores one of the sci-fi film buff's favourite philosophical conundrums.