Issues
Issue 86: September/October 2011
EDITORIAL
Philosophers on the Beach
by Anja Steinbauer
NEWS
News: September/October 2011
Derek Parfit asks: What Matters? • Philosophy college launches in London • Leiter accuses rival of ‘misconduct’ — News reports by Sue Roberts.
KANT & CO.
Having Trouble With Kant?
Peter Rickman says you’re not the only one.
Hegel’s God
Robert Wallace describes a little-known alternative divinity.
Masters, Slaves & Meanings
G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) had a grand, overarching theory of how history unfolds. Roger Duncan looks at the nature of master-slave relationships in Hegel’s thought.
Nietzsche: Love, Guilt & Redemption
Eva Cybulska peers into Friedrich Nietzsche’s stormy psyche.
Schopenhauer
Roger Caldwell looks at the most pessimistic of philosophers.
ARTICLES
Between Dawkins & God
John Holroyd negotiates a middle way between these two much-lauded figures.
How To Get Off Our Trolleys
Phil Badger tackles the famous ‘Trolley Problem’ of ethics.
The Blind Laws of Human Nature
Patricia Herron looks at life and death philosophically.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
Alistair MacFarlane on the best-known advocate of Process Philosophy.
What Is Truth?
The following answers to this question each win a signed copy of How To Be An Agnostic by Mark Vernon. Sorry if you’re not here; there were lots of entries.
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Our fortieth thoroughly furrowed field of facts philosophically farmed by Deiradiotes.
LETTERS
Letters
Outsider Revisionism • Non-Violent Narratives • Marks on Animals • Philosophies About Children • Artful Doubter • Maths & Reality • Kant Not Dead, But Timeless
COLUMNS
Absolute Vulnerability
by Joel Marks
Call No Event Future Until It Is Past
Raymond Tallis takes the time to explain time.
REVIEWS
The Immortalization Commission by John Gray
Karl White wants to live forever.
The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil
James Williams has a singularily good time.
Black Swan
Dharmender Dhillon watches Dionysus dance with Apollo. WARNING: Contains a plot spoiler.
FICTION
The Dead German Philosophers’ Club
Carl Murray eavesdrops on an heroic argument.
The Immortalization Commission
by Constantine Sandis