Tag Archives: Meaning

Preview: Philosophy Now Magazine January 2025

Philosophy Now Magazine (December 11,2024)The new issue features ‘The Return of God?’ and Social Media & Plato’s Cave…

Return to God?

by Rick Lewis

NEWS

News: December 2024 / January 2025

Lost Hegel lecture notes now being digitized • Professor Ted Honderich dead at 91 — News reports by Anja Steinbauer

SOCIAL MEDIA

Plato’s Cave & Social Media

Seán Radcliffe asks, has Plato’s Allegory of the Cave been warning us of social media for 2,400 years?

Trolls, Skeptics & Philosophers

Rosemary Twomey questions our online epistemology.

THE RETURN OF GOD?

Exploring Atheism

Amrit Pathak gives us a run-down of the foundations of modern atheism.

A Critique of Pure Atheism

Andrew Likoudis questions the basis of some popular atheist arguments.

Evil & An Omnipotent, Benevolent God

Zdeněk Petráček looks at the biggest problem facing monotheism.

A God of Limited Power

Philip Goff grasps hold of the problem of evil and comes up with a novel solution.

The Best Possible World, But Not For Us

Mohsen Moghri gives a Godless but principled response to the problem of evil.

Medieval Islam & the Nature of God

Musa Mumtaz meditates on two maverick medieval Muslim metaphysicians.

ARTICLES

Metaphors & Creativity

Ignacio Gonzalez-Martinez has a flash of inspiration about the role metaphors play in creative thought.

Seeing & Knowing

Shashwat Mishra explores the limits of perception via the Molyneux problem.

Perpetuating the Santa Deception

Jimmy Alfonso Licon wonders whether pretending there’s a Santa is naughty or nice.

Volney (1757-1820)

John P. Irish travels the path of a revolutionary mind.

How Can We Make A Computer Conscious?

Each answer below receives a random book. Apologies to the entrants not included.

INTERVIEWS

Robert Stern

Robert Stern talks with AmirAli Maleki about philosophy in general, and Kant and Hegel in particular.

LETTERS

Letters

Thoughts on Thoughts on Thoughts • Get Smarter • Decoding A Decoding • A Swift Rebuttal • Basic Arithmetic • A Message on Meaning

COLUMNS

Xenophanes (c.570-c.478 BCE)

by Terence Green

Philosophers on Dance

by Matt Qvortrup

“I refute it thus”

Raymond Tallis kicks immaterialism into touch.

Seneca On Anger

Massimo Pigliucci tells us how to avoid becoming irate.

REVIEWS

Too Late To Awaken by Slavoj Žižek

T.W.J Moxham reads Slavoj Žižek’s little book of Hegelian horrors.

Barriers to Entailment by Gillian Russell

Christopher John Searle recommends a study of which moves are allowed in logical arguments.

It’s A Wonderful Life

Becky Lee Meadows considers questions of guilt, innocence, and despair in this classic Christmas movie.

Preview: Philosophy Now Magazine October 2024

Philosophy Now Magazine (September 30,2024)The new issue features ‘The Thoughts on Thoughts Issue’….

Atomism & Smallism

Raymond Tallis wonders what the world is made from.

Preview: Philosophy Now Magazine Aug/Sept 2024

Philosophy Now Magazine (August 12,2024)The new issue features ‘The Politics of Freedom’…

The Politics of Freedom

by Rick Lewis

News: August/September 2024

Elixir of extended life for mice • Nicholas Rescher mini obituary • Nietzsche exhibition in his childhood home — News reports by Anja Steinbauer

Freedom & State Intervention

Audren Layeux follows the doomed quest for state emancipation of the self.

Value Pluralism & Plurality of Choice

Christophe Bruchansky looks at maximising the diversity of choice.

The Unfreedom of Liberty

Arianna Marchetti reflects on the limits of political freedom.

On Retributive Punishment

Oliver Waters asks, is retributive justice justified in a modern society?

The Domesticated Foxes of Bastøy

Veronique Aïcha considers the ideology of imprisonment.

Preview: Philosophy Now Magazine June/July 2024

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Philosophy Now Magazine (June/July 2024)The new issue features ‘The Meaning Issue’…

The Search for Meaning

by Rick Lewis

A famous parable dating back to ancient India involves some blind monks encountering an elephant. The monks each touch just one part of the elephant, and afterwards they compare notes. One declares that the creature feels like a snake, another that it has a shape like a tree trunk and so on. Like many parables, you can interpret it in different ways, but it seems to be saying that even for something that is an objectively real part of the world, like an elephant, it is possible to have different subjective views of it, all of which may be valid.

Luce Irigaray interviewed by Octave Larmagnac-Matheron and translated by Mélanie Salvi.

Philosophers Exploring The Good Life

Jim Mepham quests with philosophers to discover what makes a life good.

The Present Is Not All There Is To Happiness

Rob Glacier says don’t just live in the now.

What Is Life Worth?

Michael Allen Fox wonders whether life really is ‘a precious gift’.