Nathan Nobis finds good news in the latest book from Kant scholar Christine Korsgaard.
Kant
The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth: a review
Margaret Betz finds wonder in The Three Escapes of Hanna Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth, by Ken Krimstein.
The Farewell, written and directed by Lulu Wang: a review
A review by Amy Kind.
Reading as a Philosopher
David W. Concepción’s top ten pointers.
Duties and Ethical Giving
Paul Woodruff on the real demands of rescue.
Conversation
In this illuminating exchange, Sir Richard Sorabji and Michael Puett discuss the Chinese and Greek traditions — and much else.
Conference Briefing: The Mind Aristotelian Society Joint Session
A report from Britain’s biggest annual gathering of philosophers.
The Moral Imperative to Rebel Against God
How can we reconcile a belief in a good God with the abundant suffering and evil that confronts us? Peter Fosl tries to answer the question by developing an argument from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
Mill – On Utilitarianism: a review
Mike Targett discovers a book on Mill which strikes “a good balance in being accessible and informative whilst offering some substantial philosophical views”.
Philosophy of Mind: the next stage
A unique joint philosophy and psychology research project on consciousness and self-consciousness has just started up, and includes top academics from the universities of Warwick, Oxford, Cambridge and University College London. The seven-year project is interdisciplinary (philosophy and psychology) and inter-institutional (Warwick, UCL, Oxford). It is based at, and directed from, the Philosophy Department in Warwick, where its core members are located. The main focus of work are weekly seminars, one-day workshops and yearly conferences on specific problems, interdisciplinary work on which is essential for making progress in understanding consciousness and self consciousness. These are held in Warwick, London and Oxford, rotating on a termly basis. Topics addressed during the first year of the project, in seminars and one-day workshops include: Time, Memory and Self Consciousness; First-person Access to one’s Own States and Pathologies of Self Knowledge; Spatial and Temporal Perspective Taking and its Relation to Self Consciousness; Joint Attention and Self Awareness; Attention and Consciousness; Visual Awareness and Action.
Here, project director Naomi Eilan explains the rationale behind the project and what it sets out to achieve.