Tag: "philosophers & philosophy"

The Contributions of Jeopardy! to Western Philosophy

Ronald Lindsay on a novel, if slightly desperate, way of funding philosophical research.
[Issue 44: January/February 2004: Prose]

Let’s Be Pragmatic!

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 43: October/November 2003: Editorial]

The 21st World Congress of Philosophy

Every five years, philosophers from around the globe gather to drink coffee and swap ideas. Philosophy Now’s Anja Steinbauer and Rick Lewis were there.
[Issue 43: October/November 2003: Articles]

Richard Rorty

Richard Rorty is perhaps the best-known living philosopher in the Pragmatic tradition, and one of the most talked-about thinkers of the present day. He is a philosophy professor at Stanford University. Giancarlo Marchetti chatted with him about his ideas and his hopes.
[Issue 43: October/November 2003: Interview]

Donald Davidson (1917-2003)

by Anna Sherratt
[Issue 43: October/November 2003: Obituary]

Philosophy & Divination

Trevor Curnow compares the reliability of oracles ancient and modern.
[Issue 42: July/August 2003: Philosophy & the Paranormal]

Zeno and the Tortoise by Nicholas Fearn

Adam Carter browses through Nicholas Fearn’s introduction to philosophy for bartenders who wear baseball caps.
[Issue 42: July/August 2003: Books]

News: July/August 2003

Plato Found in California • Cloned Racehorses Gallop Nearer • “Daddy Was a Website” • Aborted Fetuses to be Mothers — News reports by Sue Roberts in London and Lisa Sangoi in New York
[Issue 42: July/August 2003: News]

Dear Socrates

Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.
[Issue 42: July/August 2003: Dear Socrates]

Bernard Williams (1929-2003)

by A. W. Moore
[Issue 42: July/August 2003: Obituary]

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