Issues
Issue 65: January/February 2008
EDITORIAL
Nature & Nurture
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: January/February 2008
Intellectuals vs Politicians • Philosophers are weird • Babies evaluate behaviour — News reports by Sue Roberts
GREEN PHILOSOPHY
Are Philosophers Responsible for Global Warming?
Nicholas Maxwell says we need a total rethink concerning the way we think.
GM vs Climate Change
Andrew Lewis considers the ethics of using GM to help prevent global warming.
Mocking Nature
Paul Keeling reacts with a Green perspective on religious insult.
The Ancient Cynics: The First Environmentalists
Tim Madigan asks, why did the featherless biped cross the road?
The Metaphysics of Nature
Rich Grego compares John Dewey’s and Martin Heidegger’s views on ecology.
ARTICLES
A Re-Evaluation of All Values?
William Robins on genetics and Nietzsche’s Will to Power.
A Role For Consciousness
David Hodgson pulls together his experience to understand experience.
Bored With Time?
Cathal Horan is distracted by the eternal search for meaning.
Consuming And Producing Culture
Dzifa Benson compares being a producer with being a consumer of pop culture.
Keep Out!
Following our recent focus on education, Kristina Pelletier asks why there is no place for philosophy in American public schools.
Wilde and Morality
Peter Benson deconstructs the moral intrigues of Dorian Gray.
How Are The Mind And Brain Related?
The following readers’ answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book.
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Our nineteenth nearly numinous knot of knowledge numerically knitted with nous by Deiradiotes.
LETTERS
Letters
Mary Midgley – ID she wrong? • Great Chain of Being Wrong • Ethics and Reasons • How To Do Philosophy
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.
Things Take Time: The Schedule
by Joel Marks
Who Caught That Ball?
Raymond Tallis ponders the fields of action in which our freedom is expressed.
REVIEWS
Philosophers Behaving Badly by Nigel Rodgers and Mel Thompson
Stephen Juan reviews the bad behaviour reported by Nigel Rodgers and Mel Thompson.
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan
Lisa Kemmerer calls corporations to account under the guidance of Joel Bakan.
The Departed
Eric Wills reveals how Nietzschean morality is displayed in Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning movie.
FICTION
Buridan’s Ass: A Paradox Redux
Adebowale Oriku with a warning about indecision.