Issues
Issue 158: October/November 2023
EDITORIAL
The Life Philosophical
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: October/November 2023
Cornel West runs for President • Hypatia flees… to Glasgow • NTT launches its own philosophy institute — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
HANNAH ARENDT
Hannah Arendt & the Complexities of Loving
Jack Pemment considers the strange attraction between two deep minds.
Hannah Arendt & the Banality of Evil
Georgia Arkell reconsiders Arendt’s explosive report on the trial of Eichmann.
THE LIFE PHILOSOPHICAL
What is the Philosophical Experience?
Eldar Sarajlic philosophically considers what it is to do philosophy.
Is Progress Possible In Philosophy?
Mathis Bitton suggests three ways that philosophy progresses.
Why Write Philosophy?
George Sher writes some philosophy to tell us.
What Happened to Philosophy?
Alexander Jeuk says overspecialization, academic debate focusing, and simplistic argument structures, are prominent missteps in modern philosophy.
Where Do Philosophers Get Their Ideas?
Martin Cohen says they get them the same sort of places as everyone else.
ARTICLES
Seeing Through Transparency
Paul Doolan clearly sees transparency through philosophy.
Does a Just Society Require Just Citizens?
Jimmy Alfonso Licon on moral mediocrity.
Russell’s Moral Quandary
David Berman holds key oppositions in tension, including concerning morality.
Prince Shōtoku (574-622)
B.V.E. Hyde looks at the statesman who fathered Japanese philosophy.
LETTERS
Letters
High Impact Thinking • Computations & Cogitations • Postmodernism Lives! • (M)Eat To Live • Right & Wrong Still Debated • A Multiplicity of Meanings • A Quantum of Freedom • Letters from Women Readers
COLUMNS
Karl Barth (1886-1968)
by Terence Green
Philosophers on Cats
by Matt Qvortrup
An Itsy-Bitsy Universe?
Raymond Tallis breaks down the ultimate breakdown.
The Discipline of Desire
Massimo Pigliucci helps us to know our limits.
REVIEWS
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology by Lucy Moore
Roger Caldwell considers the quest of anthropologists.
A History of Lying by Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel
Stuart Hannabuss looks for truths in a book on lies.
The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry Into Human Freedom by John Gray
Thomas R. Morgan finds John Gray a bit downbeat.
The Banshees of Inisherin
Terri Murray thinks the film perfectly captures the zeitgeist [CONTAINS SPOILERS].
CARTOONS
Tim Oliphant’s Cartoon
by Tim Oliphant
Ron Coleman’s Cartoon
by Ron Coleman
Mira Scharf’s Cartoon
by Mira Scharf
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
Why Do Philosophy?
A comic by Corey Mohler about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world.
FICTION
Therefore, Socrates is a Philosopher
Guy Bennett-Hunter wonders if the father of Western philosophy is a philosopher.
The Game of Skeptics
by Philip Burchill