Welcome to Philosophy Now
the bi-monthly magazine for everyone interested in ideas. Published since 1991, it was the winner of the 2016 Bertrand Russell Society Award. Please look around! You can read four articles free per month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy articles on this site
Philosophy Then
Do You Need Any Body?
Peter Adamson on Avicenna’s soul survivors.
Time, Identity & Free Will
To Be Is To Persist
Dustin Gray finds out that continuing to exist isn’t as simple as you might think.
The Metaphysics of Groundhog Day
Lawrence Crocker says it’s about time, and personal identity, and free will.
Free Will & The Brain
Kevin Loughran wonders what scientific experiments really tell us about free will.
Determinism versus Determinism
Nurana Rajabova is determined to sort it out.
Regulars
Editorial: Time and Being
by Rick Lewis
News: December 2020 / January 2021
Study finds moral choices gendered • Ethics of wiring your brain to a computer • Philosopher rides along Montaigne track — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
Articles
Homo informaticus
Luc de Brabandere lets us sail with him along the two great rivers of thought that have flowed down the centuries from ancient philosophy into modern computer science, from Plato and Aristotle to Alan Turing and Claude Shannon.
Homosexuality & Christianity
Douglas Groothuis argues that it is possible for someone to be gay, happy, and committed to traditional sexual ethics.
.jpg)
José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
Morgan Sloan studies a Spanish philosopher and public intellectual who wanted to use philosophy to help society.
The Future of Philosophy is CYBORG
Phil Torres imagines a biotech way of solving intractable philosophical problems.
On Casuistry
Jason Morgan advocates justice without legislation.
Hedonism in Ancient India & Greece
Nick Gutierrez wonders if pleasure-seeking is underrated as a virtue.
Columns
Philosophy Shorts: Philosophers on Food
by Matt Qvortrup
.jpg)
Philosophical Haiku: Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
by Terence Green
Tallis in Wonderland: Arguing with a Solipsist
Raymond Tallis takes it upon himself to prove that you exist.
Philosophy Then: Do You Need Any Body?
Peter Adamson on Avicenna’s soul survivors.
Reviews
Truth by Simon Blackburn
Nick Everitt is unconvinced that what Simon Blackburn says about truth is true.
Perfect Me by Heather Widdows
A ‘feminish’ book, reviewed by Stuart Hannabuss, reflects on beauty and otherness.
Xenofeminism by Helen Hester
A ‘feminish’ book, reviewed by Dharmender Dhillon, reflects on beauty and otherness.
On Not Being Someone Else by Andrew H. Miller
Alexandre Leskanich looks wistfully at all the lives he and we haven’t led.
Fiction
Who am I?
by Jenny Maryl
