The first issue included an article on free will by then atheist philosopher Antony Flew, who remained an occasional contributor for many years.

[5] The APA executive director Eric Hoffman arranged a meeting in Philadelphia in 1997, to which Lewis was invited.

[5] At the meeting, it was decided that the American group should join forces with Lewis to further develop Philosophy Now.

[8] Rick Lewis also translated and publish the Philosophy Now in Persian for the first time with AmirAli Maleki,[9] the founder and editor of Praxis Publication.

Philosophy Now also regularly features book reviews, interviews, fiction, a film column, cartoons, and readers' letters.

For some years there was a philosophical agony-aunt column called Dear Socrates, supposedly written by a reincarnation of the Athenian sage.

In October 2015 Philosophy Now announced that the 2015 Award would for the first time be given to a children's author, Cressida Cowell.