Issues
Issue 100: January/February 2014
EDITORIAL
A Century Not Out
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: January/February 2014
Mike Tyson ‘Likes Philosophy’ • Aussie Govt ‘Doesn’t Like Philosophy’ • International Animal Cruelty Court Proposed — News reports by Sue Roberts
PHILOSOPHY AND LANGUAGE
Mind Your Language!
Two philosophical traditions with an interest in common.
Do Languages Exist?
And how does language work anyway? Antony Tomlinson weighs the arguments.
How To Understand Words
Robert Horner tells us how, and then gives a linguistic philosopher’s view of the meaning of ‘the right to bear arms’.
Derrida On Language
Peter Benson tells us what language is and isn’t according to Jacques Derrida.
To Express It Is To Explain It
Akilesh Ayyar explains Proust’s and Deleuze’s takes on enigmatic messages.
ARTICLES
Moral Laws of the Jungle
Iain King derives a universal moral law from a moral field study.
Is a Judge of Knowledge Shipwrecked by the Laughter of the Gods?
Roger McCann tries to identify some of the attributes of knowledge.
On Happiness
Siobhan Lyons argues that contemporary culture’s obsession with happiness is unhealthy in a variety of ways.
An Answer to Pilate
What is truth? Joel Marks develops a new approach which he calls alethic deism.
Richard Rorty (1931-2007)
Alistair MacFarlane holds up a mirror to the life of the famous Pragmatist.
LETTERS
Letters
Unbelievable Arguments • The Real Hard Problem • Random Freedom • Ave Epicurus • Automatic Writing • The Problem Itself • Persistant Thinking • Immoral Relativism
COLUMNS
A Mind is a Wonderful Thing to Meet
Tim Madigan remembers Steve Allen’s Meeting of Minds.
Causes As (Local) Oomph
Raymond Tallis hunts for the source of causation.
REVIEWS
America The Philosophical by Carlin Romano
Peter Caws argues that America The Philosophical is a misnomer (at best).
The Reasonableness of Reason by Bruce Hauptli
Raymond Pfeiffer finds The Reasonableness of Reason not entirely unreasonable.
Hannah Arendt
Yasemin Sari on a new film about a courageous thinker and her views on responsibility and the nature of evil.
CARTOONS
You Are Here
by Chris Madden
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
Bill Stott’s Cartoon
by Bill Stott
FICTION
Consciousness: A Play In One Act
David Dobereiner imagines a meeting of great minds.
First and Last Lines From Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
by Colin Pink