Philosophy Now Forum

Calvin H. Warner asks if philosophy can improve our lives.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/129/Philosophy_A_Call_to_Action

Susana Badiola wonders how technology will help us understand our selves.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/134/Elastic_Selves_in_the_Age_of_Enhancement

Erica Stonestreet explores a peculiar aspect of On Liberty.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/76/On_Individuality

Daniel Faggella uses technology to reevaluate what it is to be challenged.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/134/Challenge_Enhancement_and_Martial_Arts

Rick Lewis on libraries, philosophical classics, unexpected discoveries and the challenges of a digital age.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/103/The_Philosophical_Library

Tom Shipka considers whether the negativity of communicative unclarity impedes the ontological contingency of non-distance in the dialectic of being, or something.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/62/Erudition_or_Gobbledygook

Aner Govrin argues that a common perception of evil is mistaken.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/133/Is_Attributing_Evil_a_Cognitive_Bias

An introduction to our existential special issue by Anja Steinbauer.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/32/Existentialism

The following answers to this key philosophical question each win a random book.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/115/Is_Morality_Objective

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Kalina Moskaluk tells us how an idea outside of her theoretical background destroyed her research project and her faith in ‘simple’ phenomenology.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/133/Science_and_Phenomenology

Raymond Tallis has some thoughts about intentionality.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/132/About_Aboutness

Raymond Keogh has a science-based take on personal identity.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/133/DNA_and_The_Identity_Crisis

Rossen Vassilev Jr. asks if modern physics has become too metaphysical.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/133/Einstein_vs_Logical_Positivism

Tony Milligan engages with Iris Murdoch’s ethics.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/101/A_Philosophy_to_Live_By_Engaging_Iris_Murdoch_by_Maria_Antonaccio