Issues
Issue 59: January/February 2007
EDITORIAL
Joined-up Thinking
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: January/February 2007
Elephants recognize themselves in mirrors • Pope says ‘Feel free to disagree’ • Grayling launches offensive speech offensive — News reports by Sue Roberts
SCIENCE CONNECTIONS
Help Wanted: Philosopher required to sort out Reality
Apply to Mike Alder or any school of physics.
Is Philosophy Progressive?
Some say that one of the main differences between science and philosophy is that science makes progress while philosophers go round in circles endlessly discussing the same questions. Toni Vogel Carey isn’t convinced.
No Consolation For Kalashnikov
John Forge considers the moral dilemma of the weapons designer.
Philosophy, Science, And Everything In Between
Massimo Pigliucci at the 2006 Philosophy of Science meeting in Vancouver.
Richard Feynman: Accidental Philosopher
Stephen Doty says the scientist was a philosopher, whether he liked it or not.
The Near Death Experience as Evidence for Life After Death
A dialogue by Stafford Betty.
The Structure of Musical Revolutions
Edward Slowik investigates Kuhn’s philosophy of science through an analogy.
ARTICLES
Bewitched
Following on from our Wittgenstein special last issue, Brandon Absher shows how Wittgenstein’s style of therapeutic philosophy can help us be more attentive in our use of language in everyday contexts.
Leo Strauss: Neoconservative?
Tibor R. Machan gets to grips with a perplexing thinker.
Ten Reasons Why I Love/Hate Peter Singer
Mark Coffey puts forward five reasons to love and five reasons to loathe the man who has been called “the most influential living philosopher”.
What Is The Meaning Of Life?
The following answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book. Sorry if your answer doesn’t appear: we received enough to fill twelve pages…
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Our thirteenth web of wisdom words wrought with wicked wit and wonder by Deiradiotes.
LETTERS
Letters
The Word Is Not Enough • Feed The World? • Courage & Complexity • The Art Of Aesthetics • Argue, Argue, Argue • Existence & Creativity
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.
Professional Disillusion
by Joel Marks
REVIEWS
Mind by Eric Matthews
Grant Bartley finds a lot to think about in Eric Matthews’ ‘brainy’ pondering of mind.
Leon
Is Leon a good guy? Mike Parker analyses the character of the eponymous anti-hero through the moral philosophy of Schopenhauer.
FICTION
Somewhere in Leo
John Lanigan fantasises at the cutting edge of philosophical cosmology.