Tag: "truth"

What Is Truth?

The following answers to this question each win a signed copy of How To Be An Agnostic by Mark Vernon. Sorry if you’re not here; there were lots of entries.
[Issue 86: September/October 2011: Question of the Month]

Eros In Plato

Alfred Geier uncovers the erotic side of Socratic philosophy.
[Issue 85: July/August 2011: Philosophy & Love]

Truth and the Client’s Interest

Frederick Ochieng’-Odhiambo tells us why truth is sometimes sacrificed to law.
[Issue 79: June/July 2010: Law, Tolerance and Society]

The First Servant In Iraq

Douglas Gearhart says there are 1001 stories from Iraq.
[Issue 77: February/March 2010: Articles]

Dear Socrates

Having traveled from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First Century 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 71: January/February 2009: Dear Socrates]

Saving Truth

Raymond Tallis asserts the truth about the truth.
[Issue 67: May/June 2008: Tallis in Wonderland]

Death of the Author and the web identity crisis

Zachary Colbert spins a story of power and deceit brought to you via your computer.
[Issue 66: March/April 2008: Paranoia]

The Warrant Report

Tim Madigan on the philosophers who investigated the Kennedy assassination.
[Issue 66: March/April 2008: Food for Thought]

Defining Violence

Terri Murray on Wim Wenders and panoptic power.
[Issue 66: March/April 2008: Films]

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 47: August/September 2004: Dear Socrates]