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News
Sadly, our news round-up this time is dominated by the deaths of four well-known philosophers. This does at least give us a chance to briefly set out the ideas of these intrepid thinkers. Their overlapping interests and concerns reveal much about the course Continental philosophy took in the shadow ofthe Cold War and afterwards.
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Thomas Duddy & Irish Philosophy
Tim Madigan travels through time to seek the essential nature of Irish thought.
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Irish Philosophy & Me
Cathy Barry charts her journey through historical Irish thought.
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Edmund Burke & the Politics of Reform
Jon Langford outlines conservative insights gained from revolutionary failures.
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Philip Pettit & The Birth of Ethics
Peter Stone thinks about a thought experiment about how ethics evolved.
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Philosophy & Hurling: Thinking & Playing
Stiofán Ó Murchadha knowing how we know.
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Horseplay in Hibernia
Seán Moran explores equine escapades in Eire and elsewhere.
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How to Have a Good Life
Meena Danishmal asks if Seneca’s account of the good life is really practical.
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A Philosophical History of Transhumanism
John Kennedy Philip goes deep into the search for (post-) human heights.
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Hume’s Problem of Induction
Patrick Brissey exposes a major unprovable assumption at the core of science.
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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Hilarius Bogbinder looks at a man who wanted to make Peace from Warre.
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Towards Love
George Mason on love as shared identity.
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The Philosophy of Work
Alessandro Colarossi has insights for the bored and understimulated.
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Interview
Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, and a popular writer on linguistics and evolutionary psychology.
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Letters
When inspiration strikes, don’t bottle it up. Email me at rick.lewis@philosophynow.org Keep them short and keep them coming!
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The Discipline of Assent
Massimo Pigliucci tells us to stop impulsively judging.
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Book Review
Leonid Bilmes considers the problems we face if we assume our theories match reality, Stephen Anderson is sad about modern writings on love, and in Classics, Shashwat Mishra introduces Ayn Rand’s massive novel promoting self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism.
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Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode
Thomas R. Morgan hears more than silence.
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Cogito, Ergo Sum?
Raymond Tallis has a long-postponed meeting with M. Descartes.
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On Love
AmirAli Maleki looks at love from an Islamic perspective.
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“Stand Out Of My Light”
Sophie Dibben watches Alexander the Great meet Diogenes the Cynic.