Tag: "philosophers & philosophy"

Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life by Roger Scruton

Robert Cheeks praises an intellectual memoir by Roger Scruton, Britain’s best-known conservative philosopher.
[Issue 63: September/October 2007: Books]

Teaching Philosophy vs Teaching To Philosophise

Pablo Cevallos Estarellas reviews the developments that caused professional to triumph over amateur philosophy in education, and proposes a way forward.
[Issue 63: September/October 2007: Education]

Erudition or Gobbledygook?

Tom Shipka considers whether the negativity of communicative unclarity impedes the ontological contingency of non-distance in the dialectic of being, or something.
[Issue 62: July/August 2007: Articles]

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.
[Issue 62: July/August 2007: Dear Socrates]

Is Philosophy Progressive?

Some say that one of the main differences between science and philosophy is that science makes progress while philosophers go round in circles endlessly discussing the same questions. Toni Vogel Carey isn’t convinced.
[Issue 59: January/February 2007: Science Connections]

Richard Feynman: Accidental Philosopher

Stephen Doty says the scientist was a philosopher, whether he liked it or not.
[Issue 59: January/February 2007: Science Connections]

Leo Strauss: Neoconservative?

Tibor R. Machan gets to grips with a perplexing thinker.
[Issue 59: January/February 2007: Articles]

Ken Knisely (1957-2005)

George Leaman remembers a friend.
[Issue 56: July/August 2006: Obituary]

Stop Think

by Joel Marks
[Issue 55: May/June 2006: Moral Moments]

Knowledge & Wisdom in the Globalizing World

In his opening address to the Russian Philosophy Congress, Victor Sadovnichiy spoke of sagacity and sophiology.
[Issue 54: February/March 2006: Philosophy in Russia]

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