Issues
Issue 131: April/May 2019
EDITORIAL
Question Marx
by Grant Bartley
NEWS
News: April/May 2019
Word frequency reveals morality’s tides • Marx’s tomb vandalised • Black holes evade conceptual capture — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
QUESTION MARX
Karl Marx: Man & Mind
Matt Qvortrup argues that Marx still inspires those longing for a better world.
A New Twist on Old Ideas
Lucian Lupescu sees how far Kant’s and Marx’s ideals overlap.
Marx & Nietzsche
Jack Fox-Williams explores power, class and religion.
Popper on Marx on History
Chris Christensen considers a clash of two colossal Karls.
Marx’s Leviathan
Patrick Cannon on anarchy and state.
How Can Anybody Change Culture?
Kevin Brinkmann tells us, with the help of Althusser, Gramsci and Mannheim.
ARTICLES
Socratic Wisdom & The Knowledge of Children
Maria daVenza Tillmanns uncovers the natural philosopher in us all.
Against Stupidity in the Media
Angela Phillips is the winner of Philosophy Now’s 2019 Award for Contributions in the Fight Against Stupidity. She gave this acceptance talk at Conway Hall in January.
What is Panspiritism?
Steve Taylor introduces an alternative way of conceiving consciousness.
What is it Like to be a Dragonfly?
Benedict O’Connell explores puzzles of perception with Locke, Kant and Nagel.
Locke’s Question to Berkeley
Alessandro Colarossi imagines a perceptive conversation about reality.
Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996)
Will Bouwman considers the development of a paradigmatic revolutionary.
Is Philosophy Still The Friend Of Wisdom?
Each answer below receives a book. Apologies to the many entrants not included. Thanks to Finn Janning for suggesting this month’s question.
LETTERS
Letters
Thoughts on Minds • Plumbing and Modesty • Decline and Rebirth • Niesche Nietze Nietzsche Now • Free Won’t • Sympathetic Fallacies • Pain, Happiness & Conceptual Art
COLUMNS
R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943)
by Terence Green
The Other Side of the Coins
Peter Adamson on the philosophical edge of numismatics.
On Failing to be a Philosopher
Raymond Tallis thinks through what not thinking things through involves.
REVIEWS
Logos by Raymond Tallis
We seek purpose and enlightenment as Stephen Anderson attempts to understand Raymond Tallis’s attempt to understand our understanding of the world.
Why Buddhism Is True by Robert Wright
Lachlan Dale considers a naturalistic view of Buddhism.
Arrival
Christopher Carroll asks if communicating with aliens really would be possible.
CARTOONS
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
Anomalous Phenomena
by Bofy
Wolfgang Niesielski’s Cartoon
by Wolfgang Niesielski
FICTION
Masterplan
by Julie McNeill
An Unwanted Visitation
Craig Potter on a conversation out of time.