General Articles

Greening the Gadfly

Paul Keeling on why we need environmental philosophy now.
[Issue 87: November/December 2011]

Marshall McLuhan on the Mobile Phone

Peter Benson sees a prophet’s message come to fulfilment through net and cell.
[Issue 87: November/December 2011]

What is Prudent Pragmatism?

William Bluhm & Robert Heineman show how to do ethics without foundations.
[Issue 87: November/December 2011]

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

Alistair MacFarlane sketches Wittgenstein’s life with words.
[Issue 87: November/December 2011]

Come to our Party!

Philosophy Now’s 20th Anniversary Philosophy Festival
[Issue 87: November/December 2011]

How To Get Off Our Trolleys

Phil Badger tackles the famous ‘Trolley Problem’ of ethics.
[Issue 86: September/October 2011]

The Blind Laws of Human Nature

Patricia Herron looks at life and death philosophically.
[Issue 86: September/October 2011]

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

Alistair MacFarlane on the best-known advocate of Process Philosophy.
[Issue 86: September/October 2011]

Between Dawkins & God

John Holroyd negotiates a middle way between these two much-lauded figures.
[Issue 86: September/October 2011]

What Is Truth?

The following answers to this question each win a signed copy of How To Be An Agnostic by Mark Vernon. Sorry if you’re not here; there were lots of entries.
[Issue 86: September/October 2011]

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