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Radical Theories of Consciousness
Does Consciousness Cause Quantum Collapse?
Kelvin McQueen asks whether minds could directly influence physical reality.
Radical Theories of Consciousness
The Case For Panpsychism
Philip Goff thinks that everything has some degree of consciousness.
Neutral Monism: A Saner Solution to the Mind/Body Problem
Sam Coleman seeks a balance between two extreme views of consciousness.
The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness
Hedda Hassel Mørch asks: what is IIT all about?
Does Consciousness Cause Quantum Collapse?
Kelvin McQueen asks whether minds could directly influence physical reality.
Articles
Beyond Bullshit: Donald Trump’s Philosophy of Language
Chris Gavaler and Nathaniel Goldberg analyze Trump’s mode of communication.
The Further History of Sexuality: From Michel Foucault to Miley Cyrus
Peter Benson philosophically explores changing attitudes towards sexuality.
Leibniz & the Big Bang
Eric Kincanon says that Leibniz could have predicted the Big Bang in 1715.
Luther’s Contribution to Feuerbach’s Atheism
Van Harvey traces one of the more unexpected consequences of the Reformation.
Terminal Taboo
David Rönnegard articulates some uncomfortable truths about mortality.
What Sorts of Things Exist, & How?
The following endeavours at listing the existing each win a real solid book.
Reviews
Ponderings II-VI: Black Notebooks 1931-1938 by Martin Heidegger
Mahon O’Brien asks how far the first English translation of Martin Heidegger’s notebooks show him to be a Nazi.
Freedom’s Right by Axel Honneth
Peter Stone questions if it’s worthwhile trying to update Hegel’s politics without addressing his problems.
Everything
Kaya York experiences monism, mysticism, and Schopenhauerian ethics while playing David OReilly’s video game.
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.
Westworld
Leo Cookman performs an Unheimlich manoeuvre to review a disturbing android saga.
Regulars
Editorial: Can Science Explain Consciousness?
by Philip Goff
News: August/September 2017
Martha Nussbaum Calls for Wrinkly Rebellion • Mass extinction • Mass migration • Morality bubbles on Twitter — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
Columns
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Philosophical Haiku: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
by Terence Green
Philosophy Then: Don’t Be So Sure
Peter Adamson on skepticism in the history of philosophy.
Tallis in Wonderland: Against Panpsychism
Raymond Tallis argues that mind is not everywhere.
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Philosophical Haiku: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
by Terence Green
Fiction
Living With A Panpsychist
by Thomas Machter
The Physicist’s Mind
Daniel Harper peers into the murky depths.
On Reading Kant
by Brandon Robshaw
