Issues
Issue 62: July/August 2007
EDITORIAL
So, who are you?
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: July/August 2007
Richard Rorty Dead • Plato Goes to Broadway • Mobster was secret philosopher • Joan Callahan is philosophy’s woman of the year — News reports by Sue Roberts
PERSONAL IDENTITY & TIME
A New Look At Personal Identity
Michael Allen Fox argues that old approaches to the problem don’t work.
A Question of Identity
Bob Harrison questions his identity.
Compatibilism
Craig Ross on whether freedom is all it’s been made up to be.
Time and the Medieval World
Arnold A. Smith II thinks there’s always time to consider eternity.
Transcending The Moment
Brian Breeze takes time to think.
ARTICLES
Erudition or Gobbledygook?
Tom Shipka considers whether the negativity of communicative unclarity impedes the ontological contingency of non-distance in the dialectic of being, or something.
Sporting Enthusiasm and Authentic Achievement
Hans Lenk reflects on an Olympic climax of achievement Former Olympic enthusiasm.
The Unbearable Lightness of Ethics
Stephen Anderson wonders whether talk of ethics has any substance.
Treason To Truth: The Myths Of Plato
Chad Trainer says Plato betrayed philosophy by resorting to mythology.
OBITUARIES
Richard Rorty (1931-2007)
Gideon Calder reports after the death of the infamous pragmatist.
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Our sixteenth sizzling slab of symbiotic semiotic sophistry semantically spliced then systematically sewn together by Deiradiotes.
INTERVIEWS
Christopher Phillips
Christopher Phillips is known for promoting the art of Socratic enquiry in cafés, schools and even prisons all over the globe. David Taube met him to talk about his new book, Socrates In Love, a series of anecdotes, interviews and essays based around the five Greek concepts of love.
LETTERS
Letters
In Security Issues • It’s Only Natural? • Outta Space • The Rules of Particularity • Anarchist Head-To-Head
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Having traveled from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First Century 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.
What’s In A Name?
Who is Tim Madigan?
Thought For Food – Re: Veal
by Joel Marks
REVIEWS
A Plausible God: Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology by Mitchell Silver
Joel Marks asks ‘New God or no God?’.
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Mark Vernon questions Richard Dawkins’ state of self-delusion.
Just Ask The Dust
Existentialism goes to the movies. Nick DiChario finds that the novel fills spaces the film doesn’t even have.
FICTION
Miranda and the Over-Dragon
Nolan Whyte with his second fable about the philosophical adventuress.