Philosophy Now Forum

Nick Bostrom's parable is a good foil for Mary Midgley's sensible discussion of the issues. Another problem with immortality is that the first people to get it would be the dictators and oligarchs of the world. Imagine what the world would be like if Mugabe, Asad etc lived forever! Even apart from c...

Happy Mole Day ... I love that!

Thinking about other moles, however, do watch this 2-minute video to ensure all your moles are only of the happy type:
http://www.channel4embarrassingillnesse ... eck-moles/

I've just started Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow's "The Grand Design". It's fairly easy, bedtime reading, so far appears pitched at a fairly broad audience. The perspective appears to be atheistic, although if that's so, the title is provocative. In fact, the first page is even mor...

Ion Georgiou's article is great. It seems to me that Sartre had a massive influence on plays, movies and literature, so this exposition helps clarify some of where he was coming from. The obligatory digs at the apostle of existentialism being inauthentic (maybe) :roll: get a bit tired after the fist...

I enjoyed Kile Jones' article "Analytic vs Continental Philosophy" - it is a helpful overview of Philosophy over the past century or so, and explained the evolution of the two traditions clearly. As I didn't have a formal education in philosophy, I hadn't appreciated this. I was, however, ...

Sorry, I know this isn't about the magazine but I couldn't find anywhere else to post this. Is there any chance of setting up the gallery from which to select one's avatar? I really struggled to make one myself. (eventually found out how to do it with Photoshop Elements - find suitable picture, then...