Issues
Issue 81: October/November 2010
EDITORIAL
Beyond Physics
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: October/November 2010
Philippa Foot dies at 90 • French journal of analytic philosophy • Witch report • Tehran conference protests — News reports by Sue Roberts
METAPHYSICS
Could Two People Inhabit One Body?
Nicola Webber asks you (and you).
Epiphenomenalism Explained
Norman Bacrac lets his brain do all the thinking.
Mathematical Knowledge: A Dilemma
Rui Vieira thinks of a number.
Parsimony (In as few words as possible)
Toni Vogel Carey wonders whether nature loves simplicity.
The Simulated Self
Justin Holme represents his self to you.
Why Buridan’s Ass Doesn’t Starve
Does free will exist? Michael Hauskeller reasons about reasons.
ARTICLES
A Plea For (The Philosophy of) Leisure
Alex Sager thinks deeply about what to do with his free time.
An Amoral Manifesto (Part II)
Our longtime Moral Moments columnist Joel Marks concludes his special column explaining why he’s abandoning morality.
Ethics Made Easy: ‘Feel Good, Do The Right Thing’
Roy Turner thinks about being good.
How To Be A Philosopher
Ian Ravenscroft philosophizes about philosophizing.
What is Disjunctivism?
Adrian Haddock tells us about one of the most talked-about new approaches in philosophy today.
What Is Love?
The following answers to this crucial question each win a signed copy of Mark Vernon’s new book, The Meaning of Friendship.
OBITUARIES
Philippa Foot (1920-2010)
Lawrence Solum on one of the greats of moral philosophy.
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Our thirty-fifth scintillating square of sophisticated semiotics sequenced snazzily by Deiradiotes.
LETTERS
Letters
Act Cool • Amoral Letters • The Matter In Mind • Personal Impermanence • Legal Wrangle • Paradoxical Kant • History & Truth • Tallis? Bah! • Incalculable Computers • Everlasting Debate
COLUMNS
The Paradoxes of Arthur Balfour
Tim Madigan on a Philosopher-Prime Minister.
Time, Tense & Physics
Raymond Tallis on the ‘Theory of Everything But…’
REVIEWS
The Case For God by Karen Armstrong
John Loftus tells us what various fundamentalists get wrong.
What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
Massimo Pigliucci tells us what Darwin got right.
Watchmen
Grant Bartley finds time to watch them.
The Question
Sue Rolfe shares her feelings about a theatre installation.
FICTION
The Three Holograms
Nicholas Palisade finds the whole truth visible in a small cell.
Parallel Mirrors
by Armando Halpern