Tag: "personhood"

“Will the real Mr Bowie please stand up?”

Stefán Snævarr explores Derek Parfit’s ideas about the self, and how they might apply to the complex (of) personalities of David Bowie.
[Issue 118 :: February/March 2017 :: Articles]

Julia Kristeva

Dale DeBakcsy tells us how to not mean what we can’t say.
[Issue 107 :: April/May 2015 :: Brief Lives]

Simon & Finn

by Melissa Felder
[Issue 107 :: April/May 2015 :: Cartoon]

What’s So Simple About Personal Identity?

Joshua Farris asks what you find when you find yourself.
[Issue 107 :: April/May 2015 :: Articles]

On Being (Roughly) Here

Raymond Tallis tries to work out where he is.
[Issue 106 :: February/March 2015 :: Tallis in Wonderland]

Does Psychiatry Medicalize Normality?

Ronald Pies MD argues that it doesn’t.
[Issue 99 :: November/December 2013 :: Articles]

The Man Whose Face Disappeared

What is it like to lose your identity? Find out in this eldritch parable by David Carr.
[Issue 83 :: March/April 2011 :: Fiction]

Biological Reasons For Being Cheerful

Raymond Tallis puts an instinctive smile on your face.
[Issue 82 :: January/February 2011 :: Tallis in Wonderland]

From Here to There: A Phi-Fi Investigation

by Joel Marks
[Issue 74 :: July/August 2009 :: Moral Moments]

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.
[Issue 72 :: March/April 2009 :: Dear Socrates]