Philosophy Now Forum

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

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

This issue we travel back in time in Germany, as Leonid Bilmes uses words and symbols to consider the words and symbols of four famous ‘Weimar magicians’.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/146/Time_of_the_Magicians_by_Wolfram_Eilenberger

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

by Matt Qvortrup

https://philosophynow.org/issues/154/Philosophers_on_Laziness

Heather Rivera dreams up a film review. Or does she?

https://philosophynow.org/issues/88/Inception

Edward Hall is sceptical about this infamous ethical example’s usefulness.

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