Back Issues
Issue 32
June/July 2001
EDITORIAL
Now We Are Ten!
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
EXISTENTIALISM
Introduction
by Anja Steinbauer
Existentialism & Literature
More than any other recent philosophical movement, the existentialists communicated their ideas through plays, novels and short stories. Peter Rickman asks: why did existentialism resort to literary expression?
Becoming a Philosopher
Jonathan Rée on Søren Kierkegaard and the struggle to become a real thinker.
Rodents to Freedom
Matthew Coniam says that Groundhog Day explains existentialism more entertainingly than Sartre.
Heidegger, Metaphysics & Wheelbarrows
Richard Oxenberg gives a poetic introduction to Heidegger's Being and Time.
Imagination & Creativity in Jean-Paul Sartre
Understanding the imagination was central to Sartre's attempts to understand what it is to be human, and how we should live. Maria Antonietta Perna thinks he had important insights which are still worth considering.
The Forgotten Existentialist
Matthew Coniam on Colin Wilson.
INTERVIEWS
Hans Saner
He is both an original thinker and a link to the great days of existentialism. Filiz Peach asked him about his relationship with Karl Jaspers, and about the future of philosophy.
Donald Davidson
Davidson's theories about mind and language have been incredibly influential in shaping modern analytic philosophy. Giancarlo Marchetti recently asked him about his life and his ideas.
OTHER ARTICLES
Dan Dennett and my Quantum Proposition
Stephen Szanto on trying to combine the views of Roger Penrose and Dan Dennett on consciousness by what he calls his own modest proposition.
Moral Luck and Moral Theory
Michael Philips asks whether you have to be lucky in order to be good.
Design, Yes. Intelligent, No.
Were we designed by an intelligent creator? In our last issue Todd Moody described Intelligent Design theory as a scientific alternative to Darwinian evolution. Here, Massimo Pigliucci takes a more critical view of 'ID'.
On Having One Too Many
Les Reid on the insights the demon drink can provide into the philosophy of mind.
READERS' FORUM
Bombing Baghdad
On 16th February, it was widely reported that American and British planes had bombed a suburb of Baghdad, causing a number of civilian deaths. In our last issue we invited readers to say what they thought about the incident.
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Our celebrity columnist answers readers' questions.
Moral Moments: The Right Way to Make a Left Turn
by Joel Marks
LETTERS
Opinions on Virtue and the Value of Life, Plato's Ladder of Food, Hacking the Illusions, and more...
BOOKS
Roger Caldwell reads some never-before translated lectures by an ambitious young Martin Heidegger, while Edward Ingram enjoys a surprisingly lively introduction to logic by Patrick Shaw.
FILMS
Have you ever wondered whether everyone talks about you behind your back? Whether they are all keeping something from you? John McGuire discusses the Cartesian nightmare that is The Truman Show.
SHORT STORY
Major Change
A short story by Michael Wreen, with apologies to Raymond Chandler.