Issues
Issue 60: March/April 2007
EDITORIAL
All The World’s A Text?
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: March/April 2007
Wrestler turns philosophical • Millikan named woman philosopher of the year • Baudrillard dead at 77 — News reports by Sue Roberts
LITERATURE
A Position On Derrida
Nazenin Ruso explains where and why he agrees with Derrida’s approach to texts.
Derrida: Thinking The Impossible
Roger Caldwell considers whether it’s possible to consider Derrida.
Don Quixote and The Narrative Self
Stefán Snaevarr asks, are our identities created by narratives?
Fictional Truths
Tony Milligan tells a story about the idea of implied truths in fiction.
What is an Author?
What’s in a name? Marnie Binder asks if it matters who’s writing, and other questions of authorship.
Why Emerson is Much Too Smart to be a Philosopher
Nancy Bunge considers Emerson as a philosopher, to show that he is a poet.
ARTICLES
Islamic Rationalism
Rationalism is the attitude of appealing to reason as the fundamental justification of knowledge or beliefs. Imadaldin Al-Jubouri describes the disputes among early Islamic scholars about the limits of what can be known through science and rationality.
The Trial of Socrates: The Latest
Peter Rickman drops in on the Athenian court, still convening after millennia.
Why You Shouldn’t Be A Person Of Principle
Ramsey McNabb introduces moral particularism.
OBITUARIES
James Guetti (1937-2007)
Rupert Read reports.
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Our fourteenth pedantic philosopher’s philological predicament, prone and perpendicular, puzzlefully and precisely put in place by Deiradiotes.
LETTERS
Letters
The Truth About Music • Impossible Reality • As Lack Of Evidence… • Not Bewitched • Private Language Studies • The Illogical Existence of God • Free To Be Good • Post Post Post • Bile For Bile
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. Aptly, today he answers another letter from a very persistent A. Theist.
The Usefulness of Theory
by Joel Marks
REVIEWS
Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership by Martha Nussbaum
Jean Chambers witnesses Martha Nussbaum raise a high bar for standards of international social justice.
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
Ernest Dempsey gives a feminist analysis of Virginia Woolf’s first novel.
Shakespeare in Hollywood
Francis Akpata argues that Shakespeare would be a film director not a playwright in today’s high-media world.
FICTION
The Philosopher’s Death
A short story by Stafford Betty. (Warning – not for those of a nervous disposition!)
Language Tinder
by Ivan Brady