Issues
Issue 68: July/August 2008
EDITORIAL
Analyze This!
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: July/August 2008
Doctors to redefine what is normal • Speed learning trial quickly shows benefits • Charles Taylor prized in Kyoto — News reports by Sue Roberts and Cameron Pritchard
PSYCHOLOGY
Happiness, Virtue and Tyranny
Matthew Pianalto looks at the difference between psychological and philosophical concepts of happiness.
Psychoanalysis & Philosophy (I)
Cathal Horan analyses Freud through the eyes of Hegel and Schopenhauer.
Psychoanalysis & Philosophy (II)
Eva Cybulska on Freud’s unconscious debt to Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.
The Blood of the 3,000
Jeffrey Gordon reflects on 9/11, and sees that it didn’t wake us.
The Full Revelation of the Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Birth of Deep Autobiography
Peter Abbs recounts how Rousseau undertook a psychological self-examination a century before psychoanalysis.
ARTICLES
Chance & Human Error in Spinoza and Lucretius
Melissa Shew chances to wonder about the influence of doubt and human error in our lives.
Daniel Dennett: Autobiography (Part 1)
What makes a philosopher? In the first of a two-part mini-epic, Daniel C. Dennett contemplates a life of the mind – his own. Part 1: The pre-professional years.
The Philosopher-Mom
Kalynne Hackney Pudner applies logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and the history of philosophy to family life at large.
The Psychoanalysis of Soccer
Stephen Longstaffe forwards an analysis by Marcel Sturrock, Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies at Watt University College (motto: “Watt U.C. is what you get!”), and the author of This Game Which Is Not One Half, Trevor.
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Our twenty-second serried sequence of sophia’s scrambled secrets sorted squarely by Deiradiotes.
LETTERS
Letters
Animal Reflexes • The Inconceivable Truth • Beauty and Artfulness • Fear of Equality • Environmental Mistakes • Musically Minded
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.
Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Tim Madigan presents a symbol most fowl for philosophy.
Iatrogenic Torture: Just when you thought you had enough to worry about
by Joel Marks
Is Science Going To End?
Our philosophical science correspondent Massimo Pigliucci asks.
The Professor of Data-Lean Generalisations
Raymond Tallis puts forward a very specific argument.
REVIEWS
Malebranche by Andrew Pyle
Roger Caldwell has occasion to consider Andrew Pyle’s ideas on Malebranche.
Minds and Computers: An Introduction to AI by Matt Carter
Nicholas Everitt thinks about Matt Carter thinking about computers thinking.
Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to his life and work by Gary Lachman
John Lanigan tunes into Rudolf Steiner thanks to Gary Lachman.
The Counterfeiters
Thomas Wartenberg finds that extreme circumstances can bring out a person’s true moral character.