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Interview
Sarah Bakewell
Sarah Bakewell, popular author of engaging books about exciting ideas, chats with Tim Madigan about Iris Murdoch, Montaigne, the meaning of hope, humanism, fallibility, and her own life, among other topics.
Thoughts on Thought
From Birds To Brains
Jonathan Moens considers whether emergence can explain minds from brains.
Mary Leaves Her Room
Nigel Hems asks, does Mary see colours differently outside her room?
Love & Metaphysics
Peter Graarup Westergaard explains why love is never just physical, with the aid of Donald Davidson’s anomalous monism.
Iain McGilchrist’s Naturalized Metaphysics
Rogério Severo looks at the brain to see the world anew.
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Regulars
Editorial: Thoughts on Thought
by Rick Lewis
News: October/November 2024
World Congress: a report from Rome • Morality found to change with weather • Critic & philosopher Fredric Jameson dies — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
Articles
The Funnel of Righteousness
Peter Worley tells us how to be right, righter, rightest.
Why is Freedom So Important To Us?
John Shand explains why free will is basic to humanity.
Philosopher Kings – & Queens?
Helene Scott-Fordsmand explores legitimacy in philosophy.
Is Brillo Box an Illustration?
Thomas E. Wartenberg uses Warhol’s work to illustrate his theory of illustration.
Taylor Swift: A Philosopher For Our Times
Susan Andrews parallels Taylor Swift with Aristotle and Socrates.
Anselm (1033-1109)
Martin Jenkins recalls the being of the creator of the ontological argument.
Columns
Philosophy Shorts: Philosophers on Sneezing
by Matt Qvortrup
Philosophical Haiku: Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
by Terence Green
The Art of Living: Four Threats To Our Judgment
Massimo Pigliucci hails the stoicism of a philosopher-emperor.
Tallis in Wonderland: Extending The Mind
Raymond Tallis considers the mind in the body & beyond.
Reviews
How To Think Like A Woman by Regan Penaluna
Hugo Whately argues that analysing the problems of philosophy’s history is doing philosophy.
Nonhuman Humanitarians by Benjamin Meiches
Andrew Strebkov considers animals to be unlikely humanitarians.
Love Lies Bleeding
J.R. Dickerson decodes a film that likes to pretend it doesn’t have messages because it’s a comedy.
Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, & Moral Progress and Analytic Philosophy & Human Life by Thomas Nagel
Jane O’Grady mulls over two new books by Thomas Nagel.
Fiction
Thought Experiment
by Carol Hart
