Issues
Issue 76: November/December 2009
EDITORIAL
Mill Matters Mightily
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: November/December 2009
Bring me more brains, Igor • Public understanding of philosophy becomes respectable • Ordinary language philosophy revival? — News reports by Sue Roberts
ON LIBERTY
‘One very simple principle’
Gerard Casey breaks down Mill’s core principle.
On Liberty: An Introduction
Helen McCabe introduces John Stuart Mill on his own free will.
Censorship, Liberty & The Media
Delilah and Chris Caldwell talk freely about the freedom of information for Mill.
J.S. Mill & Violations of Good Manners
Alexander Brown explores an apparent inconsistency within Mill’s system of ideas.
On Individuality
Erica Stonestreet explores a peculiar aspect of On Liberty.
ARTICLES
Dying At The Right Time
Morgan Rempel wonders whether there is a good time to die.
Knowledge & History
On an evening out Grant Bartley realises the importance of perspective and hears George Soros talk about markets, ignorance and the Open Society.
Saint Socrates
Mark Vernon thinks about the lives of some philosophers who lived their thinking.
How Are We Free?
The following answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book.
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Our thirtieth original odyssey of orthographical oddities organised by Deiradiotes.
LETTERS
Letters
Philosophers In Chains • A Taking Marks Seriously • CS Peirce, Analytic Phenomenologist • Science, Psychology & Supernature • Morals And Money • The Theists Strike Back • Golden Lines
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.
Yes Virginia, There is a Santayana
Frank N. Churchless, aka Tim Madigan, on a vexed ontological issue.
Time Travel Made Easy
by Joel Marks
Crossing The Divide
Our philosophical science correspondent Massimo Pigliucci tries…
Zhuangzi And That Bloody Butterfly
Raymond Tallis dreams up a flight of philosophical fancy.
REVIEWS
Gray’s Anatomy by John Gray
Floris van den Berg exposes John Gray’s unwilling secular humanism.
Sport by Colin McGinn
Will Robins gets sporty with Colin McGinn.
The Philosopher’s Zone
And now for something different again, Bruce: Chris Gill listens to philosophy radio broadcast from the Outback.
Twilight Of The Gods
And now for something completely different: Tim Madigan watches Nietzsche clash with Wagner.
FICTION
Animal Lab
Liz Stillwaggon Swan hears the mice and cats run for the hills, quietly.
Farewell To Nietzsche
by Peter Abbs
The Philosopher King
by Peter Abbs