Issues
Issue 77: February/March 2010
EDITORIAL
Continental Tales
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: February/March 2010
Famous Radical Feminist dies • Dolphin rights on agenda • Wittgenstein: the opera • Sex with robots? • Fodor attacks Darwinism — News reports by Sue Roberts
CONTINENTAL TALES
Žižek on Love
Kathleen O’Dwyer asks what Slavoj Žižek means by ‘love thy neighbour’.
Political Philosophy After Metaphysics: Habermas & Lyotard
Abdelkader Aoudjit thinks about postmodern political thinking.
Root, Tomato, Tallith: Three Objects
Peter Benson tells a tale of Sartre, Barthes and Derrida.
The Heterotopia of Disney World
Christophe Bruchansky asks if we’re living in a global themepark.
ARTICLES
Back Pain & Rationality
Mitchell Silver ponders the problem philosophically.
La Vie D’Ennui
Colin Bisset is inspired to do nothing.
Plato And Aristotle In The Underworld
Carl Murray finds Plato and Aristotle having a hell of an argument.
The First Servant In Iraq
Douglas Gearhart says there are 1001 stories from Iraq.
The Roots of Reason
Jeffrey Scheuer on the philosophical legacy of J. Renford Bambrough.
OBITUARIES
Mary Daly & Feminist Philosophy
Jennifer Benson urges you to add some sin to your bookshelf.
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Our thirty-first concise but confounding corralling of concepts concerning contemplation by Deiradiotes.
LETTERS
Letters
The Paradoxes of Liberty • Nietzsche Is Dead • Arendt’s Public Example • Picking Tallis’ Brain For Thought • Chiselling at Chisholm • Time Sensitive
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.
I Sink, Therefore I’m Not
by Joel Marks
The Myth Of Time Travel
Raymond Tallis time travels merely by the power of thought.
REVIEWS
W. K. Clifford and ‘The Ethics of Belief’ by Tim Madigan
Jon Wainwright finds it easy to believe Tim Madigan.
Why Animal Suffering Matters by Andrew Linzey
Joel Marks finds Andrew Linzey being kind to animals.
Solaris
Albert Filice looks in the mirror and observes an alien consciousness through the eyes of Hegel.
FICTION
The Highest Number In The Universe
Sam Morris gives us a glimpse of his near-infinite wisdom.
Somewhere, Something
by Shanta Acharya