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Issue 58
November/December 2006
EDITORIAL
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
Philosopher court-martialled • Confucian reigns in China • Darwin evolves online • Philosophy under the hammer — News reports by Sue Roberts in London and John Ruddy in New York
WITTGENSTEIN
Mathias Brochhausen envisages Wittgenstein Hitchhiking around the Galaxy.
Mark Jago looks at Wittgenstein’s first theory of language, in the Tractatus. One of the conclusions of this theory is that the theory in the Tractatus is nonsense…
George Wrisley considers how some of Wittgenstein’s later ideas on language relate to reality.
Richard Floyd explains a notorious example of Wittgenstein’s public thought.
Bob Plant and Peter Baumann relate some lesser-known anecdotes about the great man and his acolytes.
Peter Caws considers how much is lost in translation.
Tim Madigan on logic, language and mysticism in the life of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.
ARTICLES
To be or not to be brilliant? Miriam Abbott on the ontological argument for God’s existence.
With so many serious problems in the world, Jean Kazez asks whether there’s any excuse to buy ourselves new toys, or even take up more worthy pastimes like playing the violin. Her reflections take in Paul Farmer, Peter Singer, Susan Wolf and Nietzsche.
Alan Kirby says postmodernism is dead and buried. In its place comes a new paradigm of authority and knowledge formed under the pressure of new technologies and contemporary social forces.
CROSSWORD
Our twelfth lovingly linked labyrinthine labour of lexical legerdemain by Deiradiotes.
INTERVIEWS
Peter Hacker is the leading Wittgenstein scholar at Oxford. Li Hong asked him about Wittgenstein and analytic philosophy.
LETTERS
Soulful Articulations • Music, Food of Thought • A Wealth of Experience? • Dasein, Oder Nicht Dasein? • ‘Heaven UnChristian’ Shock • Imadaldin Interpretation Issues • Slack Anarchist • Evolving Ethics • Mortal Words • Give Rand a Hand
COLUMNS
Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission. This issue he calls in the hippes [cavalry, man].
by Joel Marks
Our philosophical science correspondent Massimo Pigliucci asks.
REVIEWS
Brian Morris deplores John Moore and friends’ views on Nietzsche and anarchism.
Robert Cheeks finds Elizabeth Campbell Corey’s analysis of Oakeshott’s philosophy to be all present and correct.
Thomas Wartenberg sees two films about 9-11 and muses that sometimes more than courage is called for.
FICTION
Bill Welton rewrites some familiar songs to give them philosophy appeal – including some carols for Christmas.
Martin Lunghi gets into some strange tendencies with language.
The Death of Postmodernism And Beyond
