Tag: "philosophers & philosophy"

Daniel Dennett: Autobiography (Part 1)

What makes a philosopher? In the first of a two-part mini-epic, Daniel C. Dennett contemplates a life of the mind – his own. Part 1: The pre-professional years.
[Issue 68: July/August 2008: Articles]

Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to his life and work by Gary Lachman

John Lanigan tunes into Rudolf Steiner thanks to Gary Lachman.
[Issue 68: July/August 2008: Books]

Remembering Peter Hare (1935-2008)

John Corcoran, Alexander Razin and Tim Madigan pay tribute to their friend.
[Issue 66: March/April 2008: Articles]

Atlas Shrugged @ 50+

Tibor Machan considers the continuing appeal of the moral philosophy of Ayn Rand, more than fifty years after the publication of her greatest work.
[Issue 66: March/April 2008: Articles]

Things Take Time: The Schedule

by Joel Marks
[Issue 65: January/February 2008: Moral Moments]

Philosophers Behaving Badly by Nigel Rodgers and Mel Thompson

Stephen Juan reviews the bad behaviour reported by Nigel Rodgers and Mel Thompson.
[Issue 65: January/February 2008: Books]

Of Adolescents and The Aristotle

Michael J. Brown finds assumptions challenged in his Philosophy Club.
[Issue 63: September/October 2007: Education]

Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life by Roger Scruton

Robert Cheeks praises an intellectual memoir by Roger Scruton, Britain’s best-known conservative philosopher.
[Issue 63: September/October 2007: Books]

Teaching Philosophy vs Teaching To Philosophise

Pablo Cevallos Estarellas reviews the developments that caused professional to triumph over amateur philosophy in education, and proposes a way forward.
[Issue 63: September/October 2007: Education]

Erudition or Gobbledygook?

Tom Shipka considers whether the negativity of communicative unclarity impedes the ontological contingency of non-distance in the dialectic of being, or something.
[Issue 62: July/August 2007: Articles]

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