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EDITORIAL
by Tim Madigan
NEWS
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance author dies • French Prez was assistant to Paul Ricouer • Hawking recommends leaving Earth — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The Passionate Bertrand Russell
Peter Stone reveals the deep and varied passions of the analytic philosopher.
Bertrand Russell on The Value of Philosophy for Life
John R. Lenz tells us why Russell thought philosophy worthwhile.
“To be happy, one must first not be unhappy”
Tim Delaney finds joy in Bertrand Russell’s The Conquest of Happiness.
The Philosopher & The Scientist
Tony Simpson tells us how the Russell-Einstein manifesto led to Pugwash.
John Ongley investigates what Bertrand Russell thought about human reason.
Landon D.C. Elkind explains why Russell believed logic can set thought free.
ARTICLES
Is The Age Of Individualism Coming To An End?
Michael Foley says that perhaps we are all becoming more sociable.
Maeve Roughton asks if it’s becoming a crime to think the wrong thoughts.
Berkeley’s & Hume’s Philosophical Memoirs
David Berman looks for similarities and differences in the aims of the two thinkers.
Experimental Philosophy versus Natural Kind Essentialism
Mark Pinder puts Hilary Putnam’s essential philosophical theory to the test.
The Morality of Getting Divorced
Justin McBrayer considers when divorce is morally permissable, and when it isn’t.
Martin Jenkins considers a black sheep of the French Enlightenment.
INTERVIEWS
Our columnist has just released a major book on the philosophy of time. Grant Bartley interviews him about Of Time and Lamentation.
COLUMNS
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
by Terence Green
Seán Moran tiptoes tolerantly through the tulips.
Peter Adamson on Russell’s History of Western Philosophy.
LETTERS
Often Reasonable • Genetic Variation • Remembering Wonderland • Multiple Multiverse Problems • Social Rights • Imagining Kafkaland • Midgley’s Far Reach
REVIEWS
I Find That Offensive by Claire Fox
Terri Murray isn’t offended by Claire Fox’s book about the politics of being offended.
The Philosophy of Creativity edited by Elliot Paul and Scott Barry Kaufman
Les Reid has a creative response to a book on the philosophy of creativity.
Leo Cookman performs an Unheimlich manoeuvre to review a disturbing android saga.
FICTION
by Brandon Robshaw
Sheldon Currie watches Socrates take on the modern academy.
CARTOONS
by Melissa Felder
by Bill Stott
by Jon Carter
