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Brief Lives
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Mark Willingham looks at the philosophy of the great artist.
Nietzsche Past & Future
Eternal Recurrence Revisited
Brandon Robshaw looks again at Nietzsche’s idea of the eternal repetition of life.
‘I Am A God’: On Becoming More Than Human
David Birch compares the attitudes of Friedrich Nietzsche and Kanye West.
Two Famous Philistines of Philosophy
Christopher Devlin Brown sees similarities and differences in Nietzsche’s and Plato’s critiques of art.
To Forget or To Remember?
Paul Doolan on what Nietzsche thought we can, and can’t, get out of history.
Regulars
Editorial: Nietzsche’s Hammer
by Tim B-Gray
Report: The Philosophy Now Festival 2020
Report by Anja Steinbauer
Articles
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When Worlds (moral & causal) Collide
Toni Vogel Carey wrestles with conflicts of duty.
To Infinity… and Beyond!
Owain Griffin takes a leap beyond the limits of numbers, into concepts.
Return To Infinity!
Les Reid wonders whether the universe might turn out to be infinite after all.
Escaping the Academic Coal Mine
David Rönnegard argues that academia must focus on unearthing gems.
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Mark Willingham looks at the philosophy of the great artist.
What & Why Are Human Rights?
Our readers give their thoughts, each winning the right to a random book.
Columns
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Philosophical Haiku: Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992)
by Terence Green
Philosophy Then: Life & The Mind
Peter Adamson wonders if we can learn philosophy from a life.
Tallis in Wonderland: Against Neural Philosophy Of Mind
Raymond Tallis argues that your brain waves are not themselves thoughts.
Philosophical Haiku: Heraclitus (c.535-475 BCE)
by Terence Green
Reviews
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein writes in praise of Industry in our postindustrial morass.
Philosophical Posthumanism by Francesca Ferrando
Roberto Manzocco explores the posthuman condition.
Fellow Creatures by Christine Korsgaard
Chad Trainer asks whether animals should be considered moral ‘ends in themselves’.
Zombies
Chris Ferbrache wonders why zombie movies have remained so popular for almost a century.
Fiction
The Last Question
by Ben G. Yacobi
