In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Philosophy now

• Xuanzang & the Gettier Problem
  Maya Koka journeys through the desert to seek knowledge about knowledge.
• The Philosophical Method of Exception
  Peter Keeble spotlights and critiques a common philosophical technique.
• Popper, Science & Democracy
  Brian King follows Popper’s idea of the evolution of knowledge, life and society.
• Challenging the Objectivity of Science
  Sina Mirzaye Shirkoohi observes science to get the facts straight about it.
• Gödel, Wittgenstein, & the Limits of Knowledge
  Michael D. McGranahan takes us to the edge of language, mathematics and science.
• The Centennial of the Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial
  Tim Madigan on the creation and the evolution of a legend.
• A Crisis of Attention
  Paul Doolan attends to our culture of attention demanding.
• Weltschmerz and the World
  Ian James Kidd takes a realistic and global view of the history of pessimism.
• The Meaning of a Good Life
  Following the sad news of Alasdair MacIntyre’s death recently, AmirAli Maleki argues that he and Miskawayh al-Razi shared a similarly Aristotelian vision of the way to live.
• Question of the Month What Makes A Work Of Art Great?
  Each answer below receives a book. Apologies to all the entrants not included.
• Henry Odera Oruka (1944-1995)
  Robin Attfield looks at the life of a dedicated promoter of African philosophy.
• Letters
  When inspiration strikes, don’t bottle it up. Email me at rick.lewis@philosophynow.org Keep them short and keep them coming!
• Nine Spiritual Exercises
  Massimo Pigliucci explains how to get Philo-Sophical.
• Books
  We follow mammal’s search for meaning, as Mark Vorobej savages John Gray’s book of impractical cat philosophy, while B.V.E. Hyde ponders the point of Jordan Peterson. In Classics, Hilarius Bogbinder reviews Plato’s Republic.
• Classics
  The Republic
• EXISTENTIAL COMICS
  A strip by Corey Mohler about Plato’s Noble Lie.
• The Beatles: Nothing is Real
  Clinton Van Inman gets back to the psychedelic Sixties.
• Pharmaco-Metaphysics?
  Raymond Tallis argues against acidic assertions, and doubts DMT discoveries.
• The Post-Truth Kerfuffle
  Susan Haack, who is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts & Sciences, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Law, at the University of Miami, talks with Angela Tan about how and when we know.
• Me, me, me?
  Benjamin George Coles finds himself.