If someone new to philosophy asked you for a recommended reading, what would you suggest? I’ve asked a fair number of philosophers this over the years and found that there’s more agreement in answers to this question than at least many philosophical questions. Ask about the nature of mind and the replies are all over […]
Regulars
Philosophy, In a Sense: We Philosophers
Constantine Sandis on us, them, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein.
Issue 83 Thoughts: introduction
Issue 83.
Philosophy, In a Sense: Conceptual Surveys
Constantine Sandis and Aryeh Younger on blockchain conveyances.
Issue 83: introduction from the editor
As The Philosophers’ Magazine goes to press, we’re sad to learn of the death of Mary Midgley. She celebrated her 99th birthday in September and seemed to be on something of a roll. The Midgley Archive will be opened this year. She was part of a remarkable generation of women who were friends at Oxford […]
Autumn 2018 News
Charlotte Knowles on philosophers taking a political stand.
The Skeptic: Tennis Anyone?
Wendy M. Grossman on what all the racket is about.
Issue 82: introduction from the editor
Sometimes there’s something perversely good about being inconvenienced. That’s an old thought to have, or anyway a thought sometimes had by old people, complaining about some irritating feature of the modern world which is delighted in by the young. But maybe it’s made fresh by new facts about our digital lives. I recently bumped into […]
Summer 2018 News
Charlotte Knowles plumbs the shallows of Kanye West’s philosophy.
The Skeptic: Lost in Translation
Wendy M. Grossman on explaining technicalities.
Philosophy, in a Sense: Not a Sausage
Constantine Sandis examines anti-vegan rhetoric.
Women Galore
Jean Kazez on thrilling transgressions.