Inside Story

Books & Arts Appointment with death Nick Haslam 6 February 2023 How best should we cope with our awareness of death — and a desire to control when it happens? Essays & Reportage What we owe the past, and what we owe the future Tim Oakley 21 October 2022 A former colleague pays tribute to philosopher and Inside Story contributor Janna Thompson Books & Arts Thinking by numbers Janna Thompson 3 December 2021 Can philosophy really cure good people of bad thinking? From the archive Home is where the mind is Robin Jeffrey 27 September 2021 How two sons of empire became leading public intellectuals

National Affairs Is a $213 billion budget deficit unethical? Peter Mares 7 October 2020 The government needs to do more to share the risks during the recovery Books & Arts Decent creatures Sara Dowse 27 May 2020 Books | If we were smarter, would we realise we’re better than we think? Books & Arts The needs of strangers Janna Thompson 22 October 2019 Books | Most of us are cosmopolitan, but how does that mean we should behave? Books & Arts Muddy reality Zora Simic 14 June 2019 Books | What does it mean to reason, to hold beliefs and to experience emotions?

Books & Arts Revenge and restitution Janna Thompson 19 July 2017 Books | Martha Nussbaum wants to take the anger out of public life. It’s a highly ambitious goal, and would it necessarily be desirable? Essays & Reportage Surfing with Singer Peter Mares 31 May 2017 Philosopher Peter Singer puts a disturbingly simple case for altruism. Too simple, perhaps? Essays & Reportage Metaphysics with a vengeance Jane Goodall 22 March 2017 What is the alt-right intelligentsia talking about? Essays & Reportage “None of us have hearts of stone”: refugees and the necessity of morality Peter Mares 22 August 2016 The Coalition and Labor both say their offshore processing policies are driven by realism, writes Peter Mares. But a practical approach must engage with moral questions as well