Back Issues
Issue 60
March/April 2007
EDITORIAL
All The World’s A Text?
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
Wrestler turns philosophical, Millikan named woman philosopher of the year, Baudrillard dead at 77
LITERATURE
Don Quixote and The Narrative Self
Stefán Snaevarr asks, are our identities created by narratives?
Why Emerson is Much Too Smart to be a Philosopher 
Nancy Bunge considers Emerson as a philosopher, to show that he is a poet.
A Position On Derrida
Nazenin Ruso explains where and why he agrees with Derrida’s approach to texts.
Derrida: Thinking The Impossible
Roger Caldwell considers whether it’s possible to consider Derrida.
Fictional Truths
Tony Milligan tells a story about the idea of implied truths in fiction.
What is an Author?
What’s in a name? Marnie Binder asks if it matters who’s writing, and other questions of authorship.
OTHER ARTICLES
Why You Shouldn’t Be A Person Of Principle
Ramsey McNabb introduces moral particularism.
Islamic Rationalism
Rationalism is the attitude of appealing to reason as the fundamental justification of knowledge or beliefs. Imadaldin Al-Jubouri describes the disputes among early Islamic scholars about the limits of what can be known through science and rationality.
The Trial of Socrates: The Latest
Peter Rickman drops in on the Athenian court, still convening after millennia.
OBITUARIES
James Guetti (1937-2007)
Rupert Read reports.
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Our fourteenth pedantic philosopher’s philological predicament, prone and perpendicular, puzzlefully and precisely put in place by Deiradiotes.
LETTERS
Opinions on Impossible Reality, Private Language Studies, The Illogical Existence of God and more...
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Our celebrity columnist answers readers’ questions.
Moral Moments: The Usefulness of Theory
by Joel Marks
BOOKS
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
Ernest Dempsey gives a feminist analysis of Virginia Woolf’s first novel.
Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership by Martha Nussbaum
Jean Chambers witnesses Martha Nussbaum raise a high bar for standards of international social justice.
FILMS
Shakespeare in Hollywood
Francis Akpata argues that Shakespeare would be a film director not a playwright in today’s high-media world.
FICTION & POETRY
The Philosopher’s Death
A short story by Stafford Betty. (Warning – not for those of a nervous disposition!)
Language Tinder
by Ivan Brady