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Articles
The Good, The Bad and Theodicy
John Holroyd on the pitfalls of academic debates about God and evil.
Philosophy & Science
Flora or Mona Lisa?
Predrag Slijepcevic asks if organisms are better seen as singular or as composites.
Einstein vs Logical Positivism
Rossen Vassilev Jr. asks if modern physics has become too metaphysical.
Science & Phenomenology
Kalina Moskaluk tells us how an idea outside of her theoretical background destroyed her research project and her faith in ‘simple’ phenomenology.
DNA & The Identity Crisis
Raymond Keogh has a science-based take on personal identity.
Regulars
Editorial: Scientific Knowledge
by Grant Bartley
News: August/September 2019
Michel Serres • Transgenic monkeys • Humans “quite nice” say researchers — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
Articles
Aristotle & The Good Ruler
Maxwell Cameron wants politicians to take a lesson from Aristotle’s book.
The Good, The Bad and Theodicy
John Holroyd on the pitfalls of academic debates about God and evil.
Is Attributing Evil a Cognitive Bias?
Aner Govrin argues that a common perception of evil is mistaken.
What is the Third Way?
How to negotiate a path between capitalist & socialist excesses? Each answer below receives a book. Apologies to the many entrants not included.
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Maine de Biran (1766-1824)
Benjamin Bâcle finds Maine de Biran’s idea of the self-willing self to be underrated.
Tidying Up With Socrates
Freya Mobus compares Socrates’ method of enquiry with a fashionable way to achieve domestic harmony.
Columns
Philosophy Then: First Believe, Then Understand
Peter Adamson reviews the relation of reason & revelation.
Tallis in Wonderland: In Measure Began Our Might
Raymond Tallis takes the measure of measurement.
Philosophical Haiku: William of Ockham (1285-1347/8 CE)
by Terence Green
Street Philosopher: Secure in Sindh
Seán Moran gets to grips with guards.
Reviews
An Appeal to the World by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Ian Robinson has a brief look at the Dalai Lama’s brief message to the world.
Down Girl by Kate Manne
Amber Edwards considers a new understanding of misogyny.
Understanding Ignorance by Daniel R. DeNicola
Paul McGavin finds help in understanding ignorance in Understanding Ignorance.
Nightcrawler
Terri Murray watches the disappearance of reality into images, in the name of news.
Fiction
Mill Meets Gandhi
Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill worked for the British East India Company for 35 years. Long after Mill’s death, Gandhi led India to independence. Eugene Alper imagines a meeting of these two great political thinkers.
