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Brief Lives
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Alistair MacFarlane looks at a man who applied his thought to his life.
Friendship
Aristotle on Forming Friendships
Tim Madigan and Daria Gorlova explain Aristotle’s understanding of good friends and tell us why we need them.
Contemporary Friendships
Tim Delaney and Anastasia Malakhova categorize and analyze the different kinds of modern-day friendships.
The Value of Friendship for Education
Robert Michael Ruehl calls for a friendly revolution.
Friendly Friar
Seán Moran asks amiable Aquinas about amity.
Regulars
Editorial: “Anyone who has good friends is a success”
by Tim Delaney
News: June/July 2018
Giant Karl Marx Bestrides Trier • Derek Parfit’s Photography Exhibition Opens • Bertrand Russell Prison Letters Project — News reports by Anja Steinbauer and Tim Beardmore-Gray
Articles
Teleology Rises from the Grave
Stephen Asma says biology needs to understand the purpose – the ‘telos’ – of organisms and systems.
The Original Meaning of Life
Stephen Leach and James Tartaglia investigate where the idea of the meaning of life originated.
Philosophers At The Dog Auction
How Kim Kavin found herself considering the philosophies of Kant, Mill and Singer at America’s biggest legal dog auction.
Why Physicalism is Wrong
Grant Bartley argues that to say the mind is physical is an abuse of language.
Our Duty to the Dead
Stamatina Liosi enlists the help of Immanuel Kant to discover why we have a duty to treat the dead with dignity.
G.E. Moore’s Hands
Roger Caldwell takes a sceptical look at scepticism.
Columns
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Philosophical Haiku: Thomas Hill Green (1836-1882)
by Terence Green
Philosophy Then: Can Confucians Have Friends?
Peter Adamson says the bonds of friendship are virtuous.
Reviews
Philosophy of Nature by Paul Feyerabend
Massimo Pigliucci says the bad boy of philosophy of science has done it again, posthumously.
Ethics, Knowledge and Truth in Sports Research by Graham McFee
Paul Davis commentates on some philosophy of sports research.
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L’Avenir (Things to Come)
Terri Murray takes in a subtle critique of academic philosophy’s anemic inertia.
The Language Animal by Charles Taylor
Roger Caldwell looks at Charles Taylor’s views of language.
Fiction
Plato’s New Cave
by Clinton Van Inman
