Philosophy Now Forum

Mark Jago looks at Wittgenstein’s first theory of language, in the Tractatus. One of the conclusions of this theory is that the theory in the Tractatus is nonsense…

https://philosophynow.org/issues/58/Pictures_and_Nonsense

Raymond Tallis sees through a physicalist confusion.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/161/The_Illusion_of_Illusionism

John Clark, MD, says our worship of the intellect has become pathological.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/161/The_Healing_of_Philosophy

Inês Pereira Rodrigues asks, are we always (or ever) who we say we are?

https://philosophynow.org/issues/161/Don_Quixote_and_Narrative_Identity

Each answer below receives a book. Apologies to the entrants not included.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/161/How_Can_We_Achieve_World_Peace

Jordan Myers argues, against Christine Korsgaard, that we shouldn’t always hold our friends morally responsible.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/161/When_to_Hold_Your_Friends_Feet_to_the_Fire

If Ludwig Wittgenstein had come from Yorkshire, what might his Tractatus have been like? Dr G.E.B. Smith imagines.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/51/A_Yorkshire_Wittgenstein

Jimmy Alfonso Licon on moral mediocrity.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/158/Does_a_Just_Society_Require_Just_Citizens

Grant Bartley wants to know what the problem with freedom is all about.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/159/What_Is_Free_Will

by Wolfgang Niesielski

https://philosophynow.org/issues/160/Wolfgang_Niesielskis_Cartoon

John Kennedy Philip goes deep into the search for (post-) human heights.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/160/A_Philosophical_History_of_Transhumanism

John P. Irish goes into full Locke-down with a titan of philosophy.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/138/John_Locke_1632-1704

by Rick Lewis

https://philosophynow.org/issues/158/The_Life_Philosophical

Peter Stone thinks about a thought experiment about how ethics evolved.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/160/Philip_Pettit_and_The_Birth_of_Ethics

Tim Delaney finds joy in Bertrand Russell’s The Conquest of Happiness.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/120/To_be_happy_one_must_first_not_be_unhappy