EDITORIAL
Policy & Reality
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: March/April 2013
Machiavelli ‘wanted notice’ found • Rats swapping sense data via the internet • Ronald Dworkin dead — News reports by Sue Roberts
PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC LIFE
The Point And Perils Of Public Engagement
Michael Hand considers the pros and cons of courting media attention.
Interpreting The World, Changing The World
Onora O’Neill argues for the value of philosophical research.
Philosophy in the Workplace
Mark Addis takes philosophy to work on a building site.
The Acceptable Face of Philosophy
David Archard asks what compromises philosophers should be prepared to make in order that their ideas will be listened to.
APPEARANCE AND REALITY
Simworld
Sam Woolfe gives us a brief history of the idea that reality is unreal.
Kant at the Bar: Transcendental Idealism in Daily Life
Patrick Cannon uses a popular setting to explain Kant’s metaphysics.
The Ontology of Photography: From Analogue To Digital
Peter Benson on why digital photos aren’t reliable records of anything.
The Art of World-Making
Mikhail Epstein sees a bright future for metaphysics in the hi-tech age.
ARTICLES
Consilience
Toni Vogel Carey on discovering interconnections.
Lying to Mother Teresa
Derek Harrison deceives a saint, and derives a moral lesson.
Freedoms!
Kathleen O’Dwyer compares some competing conceptions of freedom.
Impractical Pragmatism
Tibor Machan argues that pragmatism cannot work in practice.
