Philosophy Now is a magazine for everyone interested in ideas. It isn't afraid to tackle all the major questions of life, the universe and everything. It tries to corrupt innocent citizens by convincing them that philosophy can be exciting, worthwhile and comprehensible, and also to provide some light and enjoyable reading matter for those already ensnared by the muse, such as philosophy students and academics. It contains articles on all aspects of philosophy, plus book reviews, film reviews, news, cartoons, and the occasional short story.
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DE-EXTINCTION Bringing Back Beasts or Playing God? • John Kennedy Philip revives the ethical debate around resurrecting species.
Forced Vaccination • Naina Krishnamurthy asks if it’s ethical or egregious.
Anselm’s Proof
Moral Decision-Making for a Job Search • Norman Schultz wonders when working is wrong.
SiMON & FiNN
What My Sister Taught Me About Humanity • Lee Clarke argues that we need a more inclusive view of moral personhood.
Sound Judgement
Collective Action & Climate Change • Nevin Chellappah says we can’t dodge responsibility by our effects being small.
Philosophers' Cafe
A Dialogue with Luce Irigaray
The Mediation of Touch • A conversation between Emma Jones and Luce Irigaray.
Macmurray on Relationship • Jeanne Warren presents aspects of John Macmurray’s philosophy of the personal.
Quantum Physics & Indian Philosophy • Punit Kumar and Sanjeev Kumar Varshney look into entangled worlds.
Alchemy, Mining, Speculation & Experimentation • Okan Nurettin Okur investigates the philosophy of chemistry.
Can AI Teach Our Grandmothers To Suck Eggs? • Louis Tempany wonders whether the problem is with the machines or with us.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) • John P. Irish considers some principles of history through the history of a historian.
Interview • Karl Sigmund is an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna. He has made major contributions to evolutionary game theory and to the history of the Vienna Circle, who met regularly in Vienna from 1924-1936. Katharine Mullen talks with him about mathematics, and about the Vienna Circle.
Letters • When inspiration strikes, don’t bottle it up. Email me at rick.lewis@philosophynow.org Keep them short and keep them coming!
Living According To Nature • Massimo Pigliucci goes back to Nature to seek happiness.
Medicine Wheel for the Planet • Lucy Weir takes a wheel of healing for an intellectual spin, Frederik Kaufman examines a theory of the origins of equality, and Frank S. Robinson doubts a holistic vision of life, the universe, and everything.
The Roots of Equality
Irreducible
HIT MAN • Jason Friend and Lauren Friend discuss reprogramming your self.
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Revisiting the Ontological Argument • Raymond Tallis contends that a definition of God cannot necessitate God’s existence.
The Primates • Samantha Neave visits a future where almost all animals have rights.
Philosophical Haiku • Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)