Issues
Issue 113: April/May 2016
EDITORIAL
Keeping It Real
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: April/May 2016
Umberto Eco, novelist and philosopher, dies at 84 • Virtue in Virtual Reality • Universe “full of bubbles” — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
NEW REALISM
Markus Gabriel
Markus Gabriel one of the founders of New Realism, talks to Anja Steinbauer about why the world does not exist, and other curious metaphysical topics.
Maurizio Ferraris
Manuel Carta talks with Prof. Maurizio Ferraris of the University of Turin, another leading exponent of New Realism.
An Introduction to Introduction to New Realism
Fintan Neylan explains the realism Maurizio Ferraris introduces in his Introduction.
Sarah De Sanctis
Manuel Carta interviews Maurizio Ferraris’s translator into English.
ARTICLES
The Use of Embryos
Elizabeth Hemsley considers ethical arguments for and against a new embryo modification procedure.
Socrates & Zen
Geoff Sheehan uses Buddhist parables to illustrate Socratic philosophy.
On Moral Arguments Against Recreational Drug Use
Rob Lovering considers some of the arguments, and what they amount to.
On the Philosophy of Conservatism
Musa al-Gharbi outlines the varieties of conservative stances.
Philosophy & Cocktails
Robin Small will have a Martini – stirred, not shaken.
The Universe Is Made Of Mathematics
Sam Woolfe recounts the mathematical metaphysics of physicist Max Tegmark.
Pierre Hadot (1922-2010)
Thomas Dylan Daniel on what one Frenchman says to anglophone philosophy.
What’s Your Best Advice or Wisdom?
The following responses to this sagacious question each win a random book.
LETTERS
Letters
Tastes of Freedom • Animal Autonomy Arguments • In The Light of History • Absurd Disagreements? • Godly Causes and Effects • Killer Logic
COLUMNS
Meat is Murder
Peter Adamson contemplates non-violence in ancient Indian thought.
The ‘P’ Word
Raymond Tallis asks, does it matter if philosophy does not make progress?
REVIEWS
Anxiety by Jacques Lacan
Peter Caws critiques Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic obscurantism.
Walter Benjamin and the Media by Jaeho Kang
Terri Murray surveys Walter Benjamin’s perspective on the media within cultures.
American Psycho
Matthew Gildersleeve goes to the movies with Jacques Lacan.
CARTOONS
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
You Are Here
by Chris Madden
FICTION
Epiphany
Kimberley Martinez sees through the unreality of reality, disastrously.