Philosophy Now Forum

Zaid Shehryar compares two opposing views.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/157/Can_Animal_Experimentation_Be_Justified

Alexander Jeuk says overspecialization, academic debate focusing, and simplistic argument structures, are prominent missteps in modern philosophy.

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

Georgia Arkell reconsiders Arendt’s explosive report on the trial of Eichmann.

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

Dermot M. Griffin reflects on the sources and relevance of this ancient wisdom.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/157/Stoicism_in_History_and_Modern_Life

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

https://philosophynow.org/issues/157/How_Will_Humanity_End

Gary Browning considers the ideas and emotions expressed in Bob Dylan’s songs and writings.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/157/The_Philosophy_of_Modern_Song_by_Bob_Dylan

Jacob Bell argues that we can’t determine the ultimate nature of reality.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/157/Metaphysical_Skepticism

Christopher Devlin Brown argues that our wholesale destruction of animals makes veganism humanity’s primary moral imperative.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/157/Overwhelming_Evil

Jared Warren says, think of a number. What exactly are you thinking of?

https://philosophynow.org/issues/157/Solving_the_Mystery_of_Mathematics

Jarett Figlin discusses depravity & the American dream.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/157/The_Sopranos

John Best tries to move beyond postmodernism.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/157/Metamodernism_The_Future_of_Theory_by_Jason_Storm

Stephen Leach gives you an unbiased reason why you shouldn’t be selfish.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/157/The_Best_Criticism_of_Ethical_Egoism

More than three centuries after the death of Thomas Hobbes, the issue of state power versus individual rights remains as contentious as ever. Paul Rowlandson on the case for strong government.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/22/Hobbes_Stirner_and_Authority

by Terence Green

https://philosophynow.org/issues/156/Herbert_Spencer_1820-1903

Kate Taylor recalls a ‘humanist’ classic by Jean-Paul Sartre.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/152/Existentialism_is_a_Humanism_by_Jean-Paul_Sartre