Issues
Issue 90: May/June 2012
EDITORIAL
Plato on a Plate
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: May/June 2012
Ruth Barcan Marcus • Alan Turing Birthday Party • Festival Fun & Frolics • Wikipedia philosophy editor makes a million edits — News reports by Sue Roberts
PLATO
Plato: A Theory of Forms
David Macintosh explains Plato’s Theory of Forms or Ideas.
Picking A Fight With Plato
Ed Fraser argues that the theory of recollection presented by Socrates in the Meno is circular.
Plato’s Just State
Chris Wright ponders Plato’s masterplan.
Addicts, Mythmakers and Philosophers
Alan Brody explains Plato’s/Socrates’ understanding of habitually bad behavior.
Plato’s Neurobiology
Elizabeth Laidlaw explores some parallels between a modern picture of the brain and Plato’s description of the psyche.
ARTICLES
Galahad vs Odysseus
Emrys Westacott on honour codes and strategic thinking in sport and beyond.
The Ethics of Taxation
Richard Baron finds that philosophy need not be taxing.
Reason as a Universal Constant
Stuart Greenstreet asks if C.S. Lewis was right that reason proves the supernatural.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Graeme Garrard observes the life of a paradoxical revolutionary hero.
How Does Language Work?
The following answers to the question of linguistic meaning each win a random book.
LETTERS
Letters
Don’t Let Life Drag On • Epistolary Environmentalism • Aping Tallis • Meaningful, Meaningful, Everything Is Meaningful • History Is A Thing Of The Past • No Rush To Patent
COLUMNS
‘A’ is for ‘Assumption’
Joel Marks on why the world needs philosophy.
Emily Brontë – Philosopher
Tim Madigan philosophizes poetically.
A Hasty Report From A Tearing Hurry
Raymond Tallis has a measured response to numbered seconds.
REVIEWS
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris
Bill Meacham finds Sam Harris’s book intriguing but frustrating.
The Philosopher and the Wolf by Mark Rowlands
Greg Linster is left howling at Mark Rowlands’ memoir of his pet wolf.
Alice in Wonderland
Heather Rivera takes a look through Tim Burton’s movie version from a feminist perspective.
CARTOONS
You Are Here
by Chris Madden
FICTION
My Mommy’s Cookies
By Plato, aged 4.
P.K.F. Robinson (1908-2012)
Michael O’Connor reports on the Diagonalist English philosopher sadly crushed to death by his ‘Philosophical House’.