Issues
Issue 121: August/September 2017
EDITORIAL
Can Science Explain Consciousness?
by Philip Goff
NEWS
News: August/September 2017
Martha Nussbaum Calls for Wrinkly Rebellion • Mass extinction • Mass migration • Morality bubbles on Twitter — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
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.
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.
The Further History of Sexuality: From Michel Foucault to Miley Cyrus
Peter Benson philosophically explores changing attitudes towards sexuality.
John Rawls (1921-2002)
Alistair MacFarlane traces the life of an influential political theorist.
What Sorts of Things Exist, & How?
The following endeavours at listing the existing each win a real solid book.
LETTERS
Letters
Change Now! • A Note On A Note • Eating Pygs • Foolish To Be Wise • Out of the Minds of Children • Balance of Possibilities • Natural Disasters • Hobbes on Hume! • Multiple Afterlives
COLUMNS
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
by Terence Green
Don’t Be So Sure
Peter Adamson on skepticism in the history of philosophy.
Against Panpsychism
Raymond Tallis argues that mind is not everywhere.
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.
CARTOONS
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
FICTION
Living With A Panpsychist
by Thomas Machter
The Physicist’s Mind
Daniel Harper peers into the murky depths.