Themed Articles

An Introduction to Introduction to New Realism

Fintan Neylan explains the realism Maurizio Ferraris introduces in his Introduction.
[Issue 113: April/May 2016]

Sarah De Sanctis

Manuel Carta interviews Maurizio Ferraris’s translator into English.
[Issue 113: April/May 2016]

Free Will Is An Illusion, But Freedom Isn’t

Ching-Hung Woo says freedom is compatible with choices being determined.
[Issue 112: February/March 2016]

The New Argument About Freedom

Natasha Gilbert says out with the old arguments, and in with the new.
[Issue 112: February/March 2016]

The Brain’s Risk/Reward System Makes Our Choices, Not Us

Graham W. Boyd argues that choice is an illusion.
[Issue 112: February/March 2016]

Akrasia: Why Do We Act Against Our Better Judgement?

George Singleton asks why we splash out on luxuries worth a month’s income, struggle to give up smoking, and resort to below-the-belt insults in heated arguments.
[Issue 112: February/March 2016]

Reclaiming Freedom

Steve Taylor says of determinism: “I refute it thus!”
[Issue 112: February/March 2016]

Lawyers, Blondes & Irishmen

Anja Steinbauer on who can make fun of what, when and how.
[Issue 111: December 2015 / January 2016]

Nothing Is Funny But Laughing Makes It So

Alan Soble encounters problems in thinking about comedy.
[Issue 111: December 2015 / January 2016]

The Nature of Laughing at Ourselves

Mordechai Gordon takes ideas about not taking ourselves too seriously seriously.
[Issue 111: December 2015 / January 2016]

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