Issues
Issue 45: March/April 2004
EDITORIAL
What is Virtue?
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: March/April 2004
$1 million prize for scholars • Attack of the clones • Philosophy radio hits airwaves • Immanuel Kant bicentenary celebration — News reports by Sue Roberts in London and Lisa Sangoi in New York
THE VIRTUES
Arête
Introducing our section on the nature of virtue, Philip Vassallo describes how the ancient conception of arête arose and developed.
The Virtues of Self-Help
Philip Cafaro asks what virtues are prized today, and why, and finds inspiration in a place few philosophers look.
ARTICLES
Bohr & Kant & Zeno
Would it not be nice if there were a simple foundation to quantum physics? Tony Wagstaff believes there is; and that the Greeks had it.
Darwin Meets Socrates
Steve Stewart-Williams on the implications of evolutionary theory for ethics.
Love & Logic
After he fell in love, John Dewey became one of the greatest of American thinkers. Nancy Bunge describes Alice Chipman’s impact on Dewey’s Psychology.
Popular Bogus Questions
Stephen Doty says we should rephrase certain questions so as not to be bamboozled by language.
The Last Messiah
The first English version of a classic essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, originally published in Janus #9, 1933. Translated from the Norwegian by Gisle R. Tangenes.
The View from Mount Zapffe
Gisle Tangenes describes the life and ideas of a cheerfully pessimistic, mountain-climbing Norwegian existentialist.
LETTERS
Letters
So Farewell, Philosophy? • Eat Cuddly Bunnies • Pax Americana • Perceiving and Sensing • Dawkins and Darwinism • Pictures of the Big Bang
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.
The Burden of the History of Philosophy
We’re delighted to announce the birth of a new column by Tim Madigan.
Ignorance is Bliss
by Joel Marks
REVIEWS
After the Science Wars
Abdelkader Aoudjit reports on which beleaguered positions are still held After the Science Wars.
Welfare and Rational Care by Stephen Darwall
Jean Chambers explains how Stephen Darwall’s ideas about care connect to an ambitious theory of rationality and ethics.
Mystic River
Our movie maestro Thomas Wartenberg says that Clint Eastwood’s recent film Mystic River is a tragedy – but in the good sense of the word.
FICTION
On Real and Artificial Flowers
by Chengde Chen
Gravity
A short story by Mairi Wilson.