Issues
Issue 92: September/October 2012
EDITORIAL
All Or Nothing
by Anja Steinbauer
NEWS
News: September/October 2012
Free Will: New Lab Results Change Picture • Italian Town Appoints Municipal Philosopher • Philos and Scientists to Seek Immortality — News reports by Sue Roberts & Tim Wilkinson
PHILOSOPHERS ON PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy And The Two-Sided Brain
Carol Nicholson considers a possible source of two major differences in approach.
Philosophy Inc.
Christopher Norris offers his diagnosis of academic philosophy’s current ailments, and prescribes a cure.
Experimental Philosophy As An Elephant
Mark Phelan dismisses common misconceptions of Experimental Philosophy.
The Journey
Emery Cournand describes his own philosophical odyssey.
A Farewell Letter To My Students
John Corcoran looks back on his career as a philosophy teacher.
ARTICLES
John Rawls & Justice
Helen McCabe considers the arguments over Rawls’ theory of justice.
Is God Irish?
Roger McCann maps the limits of theology.
The Limits of Authenticity
Ben G. Yacobi asks if it is possible to live authentically.
Authenticity: Keeping It Real And Then Some
Leigh Roche says authenticity means expressing your real self, whether in life, art, or skateboarding.
A Dialogue on Metaphysics
Dale Jacquette listens in on an argument about what can be deduced from the fact of our experience of a complex world.
C.S. Peirce (1839-1914)
Was he the greatest American philosopher? Alistair MacFarlane studies the signs.
What’s The Most Important Question, and Why?
The following answers to this question of questions each win a random book.
LETTERS
Letters
Dennett Strikes Back • Enhanced Reactions • More Moral Missives • Duties to the Non-Existent • Reviewer Repents
COLUMNS
Forbidden Fruit
by Joel Marks
Did Time Begin With A Bang?
Raymond Tallis doesn’t know, at present.
REVIEWS
Philosophers by Steve Pyke
Constantine Sandis looks philosophically at Steve Pyke’s photos of philosophers.
Language: The Cultural Tool by Daniel Everett
Antony Tomlinson discusses the language culture of Daniel Everett.
Ethics For A Broken World by Tim Mulgan
Alfred Archer looks at Tim Mulgan’s look forward at people looking back, with anger.
Let the Right One In
Colin Brookes reflects on ethical and aesthetic issues between vampires and us.
CARTOONS
Chris Gill’s Cartoon
by Chris Gill
You Are Here
by Chris Madden
Bill Stott’s Cartoon
by Bill Stott
FICTION
Giordano Bruno’s Journey To London
by Armando Halpern
Kugelman The Tumler
Ron Pies wonders if people live authentically according to their early ideals.